Miner's win-win cooperation strategy key to long-term success
Shared prosperity
Rosebel provides more than 1,600 jobs, excluding suppliers. About 97 percent of its employees are from across Suriname. To support local talent development, the company has introduced initiatives such as the Rosebel Scholarship and the Youth Talent Development Program, offering professional training, internships and engineering camps to enhance locals' professional skills.
The company has continually increased the proportion of local procurement, purchasing goods and services worth more than $160 million from Surinamese companies annually, covering various sectors such as transportation, catering, security services and equipment maintenance.
On the community front, since the acquisition, Rosebel has invested $2.88 million through the Rosebel Community Fund, surpassing the total public welfare investment of the previous decade.
Rosebel has undertaken numerous community support projects, including building schools and clinics, providing clean drinking water to the nearby communities of Pikin Saramacca and Marshallkreek, sponsoring community sports activities, and supporting infrastructure projects like road maintenance and bridge construction. It has also initiated a project to support entrepreneurs and startups.
The construction of a new high school in Brokopondo district is hailed as a milestone in the district's educational history. Without a local high school, students had to leave home early in the morning and return late at night, leading to high dropout rates. With the completion of the new school, 400 children can now be educated locally, reducing transport costs and easing family burdens. This will fuel the future development of the region.
Rosebel is committed to fulfilling its promise of building a sustainable future for the communities. According to the 2018 Rosebel Environmental and Social Impact Assessment report, nearly 83 percent of local families did not have access to clean drinking water and the communities relied on generators with limited fuel supply, running less than six hours a day.
After Zijin Mining's acquisition in 2023, Rosebel organized multiple community visits to identify local residents' most urgent needs, leading to rapid renovations of water purification systems, electrical grids, bridges and other infrastructure.
To ensure the durability of these projects, a one-year new bridge maintenance training program was initiated to train local residents in maintenance skills, ensuring the long-term stable operation of the facilities and enhancing community self-management.
These projects have addressed the urgent needs of the communities, solving key livelihood challenges that had plagued the communities for years, improving people's daily lives, educational resources and economic development.
Into the future
Rosebel believes that shared prosperity is key to the long-term harmonious coexistence of the company and the community. With its 2025 technology transformation and capacity enhancement plans, the company aims to create more development opportunities for local residents and businesses.
In the future, leveraging Zijin Mining's technological and management expertise, Rosebel will continue adhering to the principle of "mining for a better society" and strive to create greater value for the local people and the country as a whole, aiming to become a respected mining enterprise in Latin America.
