Mineral extraction and processing can present significant environmental, social, and governance risks, and research shows that these challenges extend across all minerals. As global regulations evolve and expectations from governments, investors, civil society, and customers increase, companies need to demonstrate robust, credible, and comprehensive due diligence across critical and high‑risk minerals.
What We Do
The Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI) helps facilitate responsible mineral sourcing by equipping companies with internationally aligned standards, tools, data, and assurance programs that support due diligence across primary and secondary mineral supply chains. Rooted in the OECD Due Diligence Guidance and the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, the RMI helps companies meet rising expectations under new regulatory due diligence laws.
Together with participating companies and cross‑sector partners, the RMI strives to drive industry alignment, strengthens accountability, and support continuous improvement across global mineral supply chains. The RMI convenes diverse stakeholders and acts as a central voice for responsible sourcing, to help tools, expectations, and practices evolve with regulatory and market needs.
Companies across sectors look to the RMI for:
- Standards and third-party assessments to assess smelters, refiners and recyclers
- A unified data platform, the Facility Database, that brings together RMI‑validated data and verified datasets from other standards, providing a consistently updated view of companies across mineral supply chains.
- Regulatory relevant reporting templates – learn about the CMRT, EMRT, AMRT
- Risk identification and prioritization tools – learn about Material Insight and the Global Risk Map
- Supplier training, technical assistance and capacity building – learn about the e-Learning academy
- Interoperability and cross‑recognition with peer systems – learn about the UNTP
- Industry action through the RMI’s dedicated working groups
Join the RMI
Engage with peers, industry organizations and stakeholders to develop, share and utilize tools and resource for responsible minerals sourcing.
