

Opportunity
Despite improvements in modern mining practices, the sector continues to face deep reputational and practical challenges rooted in unresolved legacy impacts.
Across the globe, hundreds of thousands of closed, legacy mine sites are not just environmental liabilities; they are a transformative opportunity to restore ecosystems, strengthen communities, and redefine the future of responsible mining. Unlocking this opportunity will require new models of philanthropy, finance, and partnership.
Today, many legacy mine sites remain contaminated, degraded, and often without a responsible owner. Some are literally abandoned. They damage ecosystems and disproportionately impact Indigenous and rural communities. At the same time, the global transition to clean energy, alongside technological change and shifting geopolitics, is driving unprecedented demand for critical and economic minerals. This creates an opportunity to repurpose these sites—some can produce minerals; all can be restored and repurposed.
RESOLVE launched Regeneration Enterprises to reprocess mine waste and restore sites where the value of metals can underwrite cleanup and restoration—reprocessing is part of the cleanup process. We need a parallel solution to address sites where traditional market mechanisms and public funding are insufficient, leaving communities and ecosystems behind.
Our vision is a future in which lands and communities affected by mining are restored, resilient, and generate lasting environmental and social value for generations to come.
We fund and advance the restoration of degraded mine lands, support community-led development and stewardship, and accelerate technologies that enable responsible mineral recovery and long-term ecological recovery.
Building on the work of Regeneration Enterprises and established with the support of RESOLVE, the Foundation expands and scales a model that integrates restoration, community resilience, and economic opportunity.
We focus on the most complex and underserved sites—where there is limited commercial incentive, insufficient public funding, and urgent need for action.
