VANCOUVER, BC, May 4, 2022
/CNW/ - Equinox Gold Corp. (TSX: EQX) (NYSE American: EQX)
("Equinox Gold" or the "Company") has published its 2021
Environmental, Social and Governance ("ESG") Report and also
launched a new ESG portal on its website. The 2021 ESG Report and
data tables summarizing the Company's performance against relevant
Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) and Sustainability Accounting
Standards Board (SASB) metrics are available for review and
download on Equinox Gold's website at www.EquinoxGold.com.
Christian Milau, CEO of Equinox
Gold, commented: "Equinox Gold's 2021 ESG Report summarizes our
responsible mining commitments and management approach to key ESG
issues, and outlines our strategy to achieve our objective of
becoming an industry leader for responsible mining and sustainable
development. We have expanded our ESG disclosure significantly this
year, providing quantitative data on our health and safety and
environmental performance, energy consumption, GHG emissions and
water usage. We have also reported on the community engagement and
development initiatives underway at all of our operations, and the
values, principles and governance frameworks that guide our
actions.
"Our primary reporting objective is transparency, so all
stakeholders have a clear understanding of our targets, our
performance and our efforts for continual improvement. To further
our commitment to transparent disclosure and stakeholder
engagement, Equinox Gold will hold its first ESG-focused
stakeholder call on June 1, 2022 to
discuss our 2021 performance and 2022 targets, and answer questions
related to our ESG strategy."
2021 ESG Highlights
- Reduced lost-time injuries and surpassed our health and safety
targets, with no fatalities and a Total Recordable Injury Frequency
Rate of 3.51 per million hours worked
- Surpassed our environmental targets, with no major incidents
and a Significant Environmental Incident Frequency Rate of 1.60 per
million hours worked
- Adopted a Social Responsibility & Human Rights Policy
- Adopted an Environment & Climate Change Policy
- Published our first Tailings Management Overview Report
- Reported for the first time to the Carbon Disclosure
Project
- Joined the United Nations Global Compact Target Gender Equality
Program
- Supported numerous community development and infrastructure
improvement projects
- Supported community programs focused on health care, education,
athletics and cultural activities
- Supported environmental protection and biodiversity
conservation initiatives
- Reduced GHG emissions by 5% and collected the baseline data
required to set long-term reduction targets
- Standardized data collection and incident reporting across our
operations
- Started reporting key ESG data quarterly on our website
- Commenced implementing Towards Sustainable Mining protocols at
all mine sites
ESG Conference Call and
Webcast
Equinox Gold will host a conference call and webcast on
Wednesday, June 1, 2022 commencing at
7:30 am Pacific Time to discuss the
Company's 2021 ESG performance, 2022 targets and ESG strategy. All
participants will have the opportunity to ask questions of Equinox
Gold's CEO and executive team. The webcast will be archived on
Equinox Gold's website until December 1,
2022.
Conference
call
Toll-free in U.S. and Canada:
1-800-319-4610
International callers: +1 604-638-5340
Webcast
www.equinoxgold.com
Cautionary Notes
This news release contains certain forward-looking
information and forward-looking statements within the meaning of
applicable securities legislation. Forward-looking statements and
forward-looking information in this news release relate to, among
other things: the strategic vision for the Company and expectations
regarding exploration potential, production capabilities and future
financial or operational performance, including with respect to
achieving the Company's responsible mining objectives.
Forward-looking statements or information generally identified by
words such as "target", "objective", "strategy" and similar
expressions and phrases or statements that certain actions, events
or results "may", "could", or "should", or the negative connotation
of such terms, are intended to identify forward-looking statements
and information. Although the Company believes that the
expectations reflected in such forward-looking statements and
information are reasonable, undue reliance should not be placed on
forward-looking statements since the Company can give no assurance
that such expectations will prove to be correct. The Company has
based these forward-looking statements and information on the
Company's current expectations and projections about future events
and these assumptions include: Equinox Gold's ability to achieve
the exploration, production, cost and development expectations for
its respective operations and projects; the Company's ability to
achieve its objective of becoming an industry leader for
responsible mining and sustainable development; and the
availability of funds for the Company's projects and future cash
requirements. While the Company considers these assumptions to be
reasonable based on information currently available, they may prove
to be incorrect. Accordingly, readers are cautioned not to put
undue reliance on the forward-looking statements or information
contained in this news release.
The Company cautions that forward-looking statements and
information involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and
other factors that may cause actual results and developments to
differ materially from those expressed or implied by such
forward-looking statements and information contained in this news
release and the Company has made assumptions and estimates based on
or related to many of these factors. Such factors include, without
limitation: fluctuations in gold prices; fluctuations in prices for
energy inputs, labour, materials, supplies and services;
fluctuations in currency markets; operational risks and hazards
inherent with the business of mining (including environmental
accidents and hazards, industrial accidents, equipment breakdown,
unusual or unexpected geological or structural formations,
cave-ins, flooding and severe weather); inadequate insurance, or
inability to obtain insurance to cover these risks and hazards;
employee relations; relationships with, and claims by, local
communities and indigenous populations; the Company's ability to
obtain all necessary permits, licenses and regulatory approvals in
a timely manner or at all, including for the RDM tailings storage
facility raise; changes in laws, regulations and government
practices, including environmental, export and import laws and
regulations; legal restrictions relating to mining including those
imposed in connection with COVID-19; risks relating to
expropriation; increased competition in the mining industry; and
those factors identified in the section titled "Risks and
Uncertainties" in the Company's MD&A dated May 3, 2022 for the three months ended
March 31, 2022, the section titled
"Risks and Uncertainties" in the Company's MD&A dated
March 23, 2022 for the year ended
December 31, 2021, and in the section
titled "Risks Related to the Business" in the Company's Annual
Information Form dated March 24, 2022
for the year ended December 31, 2021,
all of which are available on SEDAR at www.sedar.com and on EDGAR
at www.sec.gov/edgar. Forward-looking statements and information
are designed to help readers understand management's views as of
that time with respect to future events and speak only as of the
date they are made. Except as required by applicable law, the
Company assumes no obligation to update or to publicly announce the
results of any change to any forward-looking statement or
information contained or incorporated by reference to reflect
actual results, future events or developments, changes in
assumptions or changes in other factors affecting the
forward-looking statements and information. If the Company updates
any one or more forward-looking statements, no inference should be
drawn that the Company will make additional updates with respect to
those or other forward-looking statements. All forward-looking
statements and information contained in this news release are
expressly qualified in their entirety by this cautionary
statement.
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