21 extends to the local municipality through a range of highly successful corporate social responsibility ( CSR ) initiatives . In each of the past 10 years , El Mochito mine has won the prestigious Empresa Socialmente Responsible (‘ Socially Responsible Business ’) award from the Foundation for Corporate Responsibility in Honduras ( FUNDAHRSE ). “ We give back to communities to a very large degree ,” enthuses Buncic . “ We operate a hospital and two schools , and we run smaller programs with respect to school lunches and environmental efforts . We have 11,000 hectares of forestland on our property , and we do a lot of reforestation and environmental preservation on that land .”
As for the mine itself , incremental infrastructural upgrades have been vital to the leap in production , the sharp rise in the quality of the ore produced , and the efficiency with which that produce is brought to the surface . “ We have been able to access some new high-grade areas of the mine that were not previously available , and our
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