B2Gold Releases its Third Annual Responsible Mining Report – Raising the Bar and Associated Documentary – Delivering on Our Promises
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News Release
B2Gold Releases its Third Annual Responsible Mining Report – Raising the Bar
and Associated Documentary – Delivering on Our Promises
Vancouver, Ju ly 5, 201 9 – B2Gold Corp. (TSX: BTO) (NYSE AMERICAN: BTG) (NSX: B2G)
("B2Gold" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that it has released its third annual Responsible
Mining Report – Raising the Bar and associated documentary – Delivering on Our Promises.
2018 Responsible Mining Report – Raising the Bar
B2Gold’s Responsible Mining Report provides a detailed overview of the Company’s economic,
governance, environmental and social performance in 2018.
Highlights from the report include:
People
B2Gold continues to maintain a high local employment rate by targeting recruitment efforts at local or
national levels. Across all operations, 97% of the total workforce are local employees. Improving gender
diversity continues to be a focus for the Company.
Health and Safety
2018 was B2Gold’s third consecutive year without a fatality – every one of its 5,242 employees went home
to their family every single day – the ultimate goal of safe production and zero harm. For a second straight
year, the Company met or exceeded its safety performance targets, notably reducing its lost-time-injury
frequency rate globally by over 50% (reduced from 0.47 in 2017 to 0.22 in 2018). B2Gold’s strong health
and safety track record continued through the first half of 2019.
Human Rights
B2Gold continues to proactively conduct human rights assessments at its operations. Four of the Company’s
five mine sites have been assessed, with the fifth as sessment planned for 2019. The human rights
assessments comply with the Company’s human rights commitments and performance standards and are
aligned with the United Nations Guiding Principles and other international standards and guidelines.
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Environment
B2Gold’s strategy is to identify and proactively mitigate and manage environmental impacts. The report
highlights the Company’s best practice of progressive rehabilitation applied at its Masbate operations in the
Philippines. The Company continues to make progress on climate change reporting and presents the positive
impacts from the solar power plant at the Otjikoto Mine since coming online in April 2018.
Economic Value Distribution
B2Gold generated over $1.2 billion in economic value in 2018 while distributing $152 million in employee
wages and benefits, approximately $171 million in taxes and royalties and over $21 million in community
investments.
The report demonstrates B2Gold’s commitment to responsible mining.
“We make a genuine commitment to stakeholders to deliver on the promises we make and be a responsible
company. Our 2018 Responsible Mining Report demonstrates our execution on these promises. Our culture,
based on our core principles of fairness, respect, transparenc y and accountability, is entrenched in our
company. What we learned from 2018 is that we can work for B2Gold and be responsible every day.”
– Clive Johnson, President & CEO
The report was compiled in accordance with the Global Reporting Initiative Standards, Core option and the
G4 Mining and Metals Sector Disclosures. B2Gold’s performance is also mapped to the United Nations
Sustainable Development Goals.
Click here to view or download a copy of the report.
Documentary – Delivering on Our Promises
B2Gold has also produced a global responsible mining documentary titled Delivering on Our Promises.
Outside B2Gold’s core business of mining, the Company also inspires growth and transformation through
responsible mining practices. Delivering on Our Promises documents what the Company is doing for the
people and the planet and demonstrates how B2Gold gives back to the communities and countries in which
the Company operates.
Click here to watch the documentary.
About B2Gold Corp.
Headquartered in Vancouver, Canada, B2Gold Corp. is the world's new senior gold producer. Founded in
2007, today, B2Gold has five operating gold mines and numerous exploration and development projects in
various countries including Nicaragua, the Philippines, Namibia, Mali, Burkina Faso and Colombia.
ON BEHALF OF B2GOLD CORP.
“Clive T. Johnson”
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President & Chief Executive Officer
For more information on B2Gold, please visit the Company website at www.b2gold.com or contact:
Ian MacLean Katie Bromley
Vice President, Investor Relations Manager, Investor Relations & Public Relations
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