All over the world, the sustainability, economic and social impact of mining operations are being scrutinised in detail by lobby groups, environmental activists, investment firms and the general public. Executives and politicians alike must tread carefully through hot-button issues as they balance economic progress with public concern for words lie emissions, waste, land-use, fossil-fuels, fracking, renewable energy and social dividend. *This is an abstract only. No full paper was prepared for this abstract.*
CITATION: Yeates, D, 2019. Social license to operate is an industry narrative laden with unconscious bias, in Proceedings Future Mining 2019, p 123 (The Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy: Melbourne).