We recognise that responsible environmental stewardship is critical to protecting the natural environment and ensuring the long-term sustainability of the Group, our clients, and local communities.
We ensure responsible operations by managing and reducing environmental impacts, improving efficiency, addressing climate- related risks and supporting decarbonisation.
2025 Highlights
Our Approach
Our Environmental Policy, Sustainability Policy and Climate Change Statement reflect our commitments to managing the risks and impacts of our activities, drawing on years of experience, international best practices, and collaboration with tier one mining clients.
We are dedicated to upholding the highest environmental management standards, focusing on avoiding negative impacts and, where avoidance is not possible, mitigating or minimising them through proven industry practices.
As a mining services provider working primarily on our client's sites under their permit conditions, much of our management approach is guided by their environmental management plans. We ensure compliance with both environmental standards and our clients’ specific policies and requirements, incorporating them into our management plans, which they regularly review through site inspections and audits.
Environmental Impact Management
Our environmental management procedures are designed to identify, avoid and manage environmental risks across our sites and activities and we are ISO 14001 certified.
If an incident occurs, we respond quickly to minimise any impact, follow our internal procedures and, where relevant, our customers’ requirements, and ensure incidents are promptly reported and where relevant, investigated.
We foster a culture of environmental responsibility and provide environmental awareness training as part of induction for all on-site employees and contractors, ensuring they understand our environmental commitments and their role in delivering them.
The training equips employees to recognise potential issues and take appropriate action, covering topics such as incident management and reporting, waste segregation, energy conservation, regulatory requirements, and best practices to minimise impact.
We aim to reduce, reuse or recycle wherever possible and encourage our sites to identify innovative opportunities and share success stories to encourage rollout across the business. We comply with international best practice and local legislative requirements when it comes to waste collection, segregation, and storage, ensuring our waste is segregated into domestic, industrial and hazardous waste.
GHG Emissions & Climate Change
Climate change is both a global concern as well as a material issue for Capital.
Our operations are often located in more remote areas with limited access to grid electricity, meaning we often rely on our clients to provide electricity and diesel. Sourcing reliable renewable energy in these areas is challenging, and our carbon reduction efforts are closely linked to the development of sustainably powered equipment by OEM suppliers, other technological advancement and the availability of renewable energy options from governments and clients.
We remain committed to reducing our GHG emissions, acknowledging it will require us to work in collaboration with our clients, suppliers and partners to identify and pilot possible solutions to adopt lower and zero carbon emissions technology when it becomes available.
With more than 90% of our Scope 1 emissions resulting from our drilling and mobile fleet, we continue to focus on energy efficiency and decarbonisation opportunities through our eMining and fleet digitisation, replacement and automation programmes.
Our primary climate-related disclosures are included in the TCFD section of our Annual Report.
Download our Environmental Policy"Our eMining Programme seeks to identify ways to reduce some of our most substantial emissions across our fleet, such as electrification, alternative fuels, energy efficiency and optimisation options to reduce fuel consumption including using automation and robotics"
CASE STUDY
Epiroc BE Rig Partnership
We are partnering with Epiroc in their development of the first battery-electric surface drill rig as part of our strategy to reduce emissions from our drilling operations.
Our team have collaborated closely during its development, providing feedback on design and helping solve operational challenges, assisting accelerate its development.
The rig will be field tested at Capital’s Sukari operations in Egypt, where there is an existing D65 fleet and strong technical capability. It is also one of the few mining operations with a large on-site solar farm that will be important long-term to truly make the rig emissions free.
CASE STUDY
Optimizing for Energy Efficiency in Mwanza, Tanzania
At our Mwanza workshop in Tanzania, we have installed a 48.6 kWp solar system that will help offset our power consumption.
The solar system is anticipated to produce nearly 50% of power requirements at the site and will reduce the load pulled from the Tanzanian grid, as well as reducing our overall power costs.
Electric forklifts will also draw power from the system and replace diesel fuelled vehicles.