Working in Partnership with the Community
Petrolia Resources Limited is committed to actively contributing to the communities in which we have projects. We achieve this by maintaining and building strong relationships based on mutual respect and the recognition of each other's rights. Through our experienced professionals, Petrolia Resources Limited works in partnership with local people, establishing a long term commitment to the betterment of the community and local economic development.
In the long term our modus operandi will be educating young children in the community in which our gold mine is locate, we also plan to clean up any environmental hazard our machines might have damaged in the community.
Bringing Skills and Prosperity
We pride ourselves on the employment and operations to generate for our host communities and Nigerians as a whole. In 2020, our plan is employ over 500 people with reasonable pay checks.
Our strategy is train and employ 60 percent of our workforce is from local communities, with over 80% Nigerian. Our Unicorn Project in Osun state will also attract the best geologist, engineers, local miners, logistics experts and many more from all over the country.
Petrolia Resources Limited Equipments
Cash Intensive
The Gold mining business is a cash intensive business, having this in mind we have deployed all our contacts and resources to source for the best technology in the industry to achieve our utmost potential of reaching 10 to 100 tons of Gold production by 2022. Environment.
Regulatory Requirement
Petrolia Resources Limited 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.
Precautionary Approach
Petrolia Resources Limited, 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 Petrolia Resources Limited and our stakeholder communities. We approach these environmental responsibilities proactively, and with due care.
Petrolia Resources Limited 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
Petrolia Resources Limited 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 oil palm project as an economic livelihood project for artisanal miners and other community members.