Marsh Canada’s Mining, Metals, and Minerals Practice focuses on industry specific needs allowing us to provide customized client solutions.

As a mining, metals, and minerals client of Marsh Canada, you are drawing from the full breadth of Marsh & McLennan Companies’ expertise and service solutions. Marsh has built its business model around practices dedicated to industry specialization.

Marsh Canada’s Mining, Metals, and Minerals Practice provides risk management solutions based on in-depth knowledge of the risk exposures facing corporations in Canada—and around the world.

Your key business issues may include:

• Business Continuity/Crisis Management
• Claims Management
• Cost of Risk Transfer
• Environmental Liability
• Foreign Investment
• Globalization
• Mass Tort Litigation
• Mergers and Acquisitions
• Political Risk
• Property Loss/Breakdown of High
• Value Equipment
• Risk Consulting
• Surety/Bond Reclamation Capacity
• Workforce Safety and Occupational Disease

Globalization

As the operations of Canadian mining companies become increasingly global, it is imperative to ensure that risk management program is constantly reviewed and structured in accordance with the local regulations of each jurisdiction, and that the local broker provides seamless delivery of advisory and transactional services. With local representation in more than 100 countries, Marsh employs mining-focused, risk experts who speak the local language and who are familiar with local laws and regulations. Furthermore, Marsh and its sister companies can provide clients with current, detailed political risk information about a potential region of expansion and can perform background investigations on potential business relationships.

Political Risk Insurance

As an industry, mining has historically been exposed to political pressures and instability—especially when projects have been located in emerging or unstable markets. Significant start-up costs, relative inability to with-draw quickly from a troubled situation, and political sensitivity of natural resources in many host countries, make mining operations vulnerable to two categories of risk: acts of government and political violence. Marsh’s Political Risk Practice has extensive experience in structuring solutions for mining companies and their suppliers. We provide comprehensive risk identification, program design, and placement tailored to the industry’s specific needs.

Risk Consulting

In recent years, mining has advanced so rapidly that insurance, as one method of risk treatment, is struggling to keep pace with the staggering financial scale of the exposures. Understanding this exposure, Marsh works with mining, metals, and mineral clients to keep them at the forefront of risk identification and loss prevention. Given that Marsh places more mining premium than any other broker in the world, we are in a unique position to have access to a large pool of loss data. This information is regularly studied to identify emerging trends, patterns, and root causes of loss. The key learning from this information is then transferred to our clients using a best-practice approach which often leads to more robust loss control programs, lower premium, or increased limit options.