Golden Star is committed to meeting or surpassing regulatory requirements in all of its exploration, development, mining, and closure activities while safeguarding the local environment for our stakeholder communities and for future generations. To access our environment policy, please click here.

At Golden Star, operations are guided with a precautionary approach to environmental management. The aim is to minimize our environmental footprint, while promoting greater overall environmental responsibility both within Golden Star and our stakeholder communities. We approach these environmental responsibilities proactively, and with due care. Over the past few years, Golden Star has undertaken the following initiatives:

Water

Water management is fundamental to our operations and we remain committed towards maintaining local water quality and the sustainability of current and future water allocation. This is achieved by:

• Reducing clean water in flows into the plant;
• Maximizing the reuse of water in our processing plants;
• Providing secondary containment for all our reaction vessels so protecting the receiving environment; and
• Establishing engineered, purpose-built wetland treatment marshes for biological treatment and polishing of waters before they are discharged to the downstream receiving environment.

Rehabilitation and next land use planning

Golden Star is committed to sustainable land use and mine-site rehabilitation as an integral part of all the phases of project development and execution. Initiatives include:

• Progressive rehabilitation of pits and waste dumps;
• Where pit sequencing allows, backfilling pits so allowing a next land use agreed to by our stakeholders;
• Introduction of our award-winning oil palm project as an economic livelihood project for artisanal miners and other community members.

Click here to read about how Golden Star celebrated World Environment Day 2017