INFORMATION TO BE INCLUDED IN THE REPORT
Section 1 - Conflict Minerals Disclosure
Item 1.01 Conflict Minerals Disclosure
Teck Resources Limited (together with its wholly-owned subsidiaries, “Teck”) has determined that a conflict mineral, tin, was necessary to the functionality or production of a number of products manufactured by one or more of its wholly-owned subsidiaries in 2017.
The tin included in all of the relevant products, except one, was sourced from a single secondary tin smelter through a single supplier. That secondary smelter appears on the conflict-free tin smelter list produced and maintained by the Electronic Industry Citizenship Coalition and Global Sustainability Initiative Conflict-Free Smelter Program. The conflict-free smelter list includes entities that are compliant with the Conflict Free Smelter Program assessment protocols and that have been subject to an independent third party audit to assess whether the entity employed policies, practices and procedures to source conflict free minerals.
For one product, tin removal salt, tin is sourced from recycled materials processed at our Trail operation, zinc and lead concentrates purchased from miners and concentrate traders by our Trail operation, products purchased from recyclers, as well as antimony and lead bullion and indium hydroxide acquired from two secondary smelters. We view tin as an impurity in the concentrates and bullion that we purchase; production of tin removal salt is a necessary process to remove these tin impurities. For the relevant tin-bearing products purchased from concentrate traders in 2017, the purchase agreements provide confirmation that no part of the concentrate supplied under the agreement was sourced from the Democratic Republic of the Congo or an adjoining country. With respect to concentrate purchased directly from miners, concentrate is sourced from a mine operated by the relevant miner. The purchase agreement with the miner generally either specifies the location of the source of concentrates or contains a clause confirming that the concentrate was not sourced from the Democratic Republic of the Congo or an adjoining country. We also reviewed the purchases of concentrate made from miners in 2017 and determined that none of our concentrate purchase agreements in 2017 specified that the source of the concentrate was a mine located in the Democratic Republic of the Congo or an adjoining country. With respect to antimony and lead bullion and indium hydroxide acquired from secondary smelters, each seller has confirmed either by way of letter or in the terms of the relevant supply contract that no part of the bullion supplied under the agreement was sourced from the Democratic Republic of the Congo or an adjoining country.
Based on our agreements and purchasing arrangements with suppliers and miners and our understanding of the locations that the concentrate traders and miners source concentrate from, purchases from recycling services, as well as our review of the conflict-free smelter list and confirmation all as described above, Teck has determined that the tin necessary for the functionality of its products in 2017 did not originate in, or that it has no reason to believe that such necessary tin may have originated in, the Democratic Republic of the Congo or an adjoining country.
This information is publicly available in the Financial Reporting section of Teck’s website at www.teck.com.
Section 2 – Exhibits
Item 2.01 Exhibits
None.
