Sustainability website / Economic contribution / Infrastructure development

Xstrata’s operations and projects develop and maintain infrastructure that benefits our operations and serves the interests of the local community where possible. In 2007 a number of operations contributed towards the maintenance, rehabilitation or construction of local roads, access to water, the construction and maintenance of schools and other community buildings, including:

• The Tampakan project in the Philippines contributed engineering expertise, project management and funding for the rehabilitation of local roads and the construction of a school building in the Tablu district
• Xstrata Alloys’ Wonderkop operation is building the Tsholofelo community development centre. This initiative will facilitate early childhood development (ECD) through training 15 community members to work at the centre
• Xstrata has contributed A$1 million towards the construction of a world-class major venue for staging rodeos and exhibitions in Mount Isa as part of the Buchanan Park Redevelopment Project
• Xstrata Nickel’s Kabanga project in Tanzania has supported the construction of a police post in the local community, donated furniture and other supplies to local schools and has helped to set up a local SME producing native trees for environmental rehabilitation
• Xstrata Nickel’s Falcondo operation in the Dominican Republic has invested in rural road maintenance, agricultural land development, medical clinics and improvements in numerous schools.
• Xstrata Nickel donated the Edison Building to the City of Greater Sudbury in Canada to house the City’s archives, together with funding to improve local schools and a children’s playground and to provide a new fire truck.