Mining Misconceptions with Rohitesh Dharwan

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🗓️ 10 January 2022

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

"Look around you, everything you see is either mined or grown," say Rohitesh in the opening of this podcast. Rohitesh is an Economist, Geographer and President and CEO of ICMM. His previous roles have included Director in Global Strategy and Head of Sustainability Advisory Services for the Africa region. In this conversation, Robert and Rohitesh discuss the perception and misconceptions of mining and how it is a much bigger part of our lives than we all realise.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to another episode of the Fully Charged Plus Podcast, mining contentious issue, wouldn't you say?
0:24.6	There's some amazing amount of stories that we've covered on Fully Charged for the last 10 years
0:29.3	about mining and the news that gets out about various things in the mining industry and
0:35.0	so it was a really good reason to get this week's guest onto the show because if there's one thing
0:42.8	Rohitesh Dawan knows it is mining. So he is the CEO of the International Council on Mining and Metals
0:50.8	which is an international organisation dedicated to safe, fair and sustainable mining
0:56.6	and in the Metals industry and he represents the largest mining companies in the world through
1:02.0	that organisation, BHP Glenc or Anglo-American Rio Tinto. Lots of them, you know, the general public
1:08.2	have heard of but what is fascinating about this conversation is he talked about things that we
1:12.9	kind of don't think about and the issues surrounding the mining industry and the future of
1:20.2	the mining industry which is really, really important because in order to transition the world
1:25.6	away from fossil fuels we need to use different materials or more of certain materials we've used
1:31.3	a slight amount and he just comes up with some fab facts but before we dive in and find out more
1:38.8	about the international mining industry let us have a word from our sponsors who do use some of
1:46.0	the materials that we discussed today in their products but their products are fantastic over to them.
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2:32.1	greener future. Please welcome on to the Fully Charged Plus podcast Rohitesh Dauan.
2:46.9	So Rohitesh thank you so much for joining us on the Fully Charged Plus podcast. This is
2:52.1	really exciting because I'm diving into this topic knowing so close to absolutely nothing
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