BETTER MINING
The mineral agnostic artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) assurance and impact program, serving mining communities worldwide.
BETTER MINING
The mineral agnostic artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) assurance and impact program, serving mining communities worldwide.
BETTER MINING
The mineral agnostic artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) assurance and impact program, serving mining communities worldwide.
Better Mining is the proven mineral agnostic assurance and impact program that continuously monitors and supports the improvement of conditions on and around artisanal and small-scale mine (ASM) sites.
RCS Global Group partners with the Responsible Minerals Initiative and supporting companies in Better Mining implementation.
Some of the Supporters of Better Mining:
Better Mining is an organization that we have worked with for a while now in the DRC. The importance of that is to have an organization that is there on the ground to ensure the different conditions we have set are being met.
Director of Sustainability and Supply Chain Management,
Volvo Cars, January 2021
The RMI is committed to supporting responsible ASM [...] production so that it is recognized by the market and contributes positively to local communities. The independent site monitoring and reporting services provided by Better Mining is a crucial component of this process that we are pleased to scale with the support of RMI members and other stakeholders.
Vice-President, Responsible Business Alliance, August 2020
Better Mining (...) has triggered or catalysed positive changes (...), especially in the categories “worst forms of child labour”, “corruption and bribery”, “occupational health and safety”, and “environmental and public health impacts.
Assessing Impacts of responsible sourcing initiatives for cobalt: Insights from a case study (2021)
How Better Mining works
Monitoring agents permanently collect risk, impact, and context data on ASM sites and monitor corrective actions implementation. The data is collected with a bespoke smartphone application.
Digital material traceability from pit to export through the scanning of barcodes attached to bags of minerals as well
as the collection of weight, location, and timestamp data at every processing step.
Risk and traceability data verified and analysed by due diligence experts.
Corrective Action Plans (CAPs) issued monthly and workshopped with stakeholders on the ground.
Mine site Corrective Action Plan (CAP) progress, risk assessment, and traceability data shared with supporting companies The following risk categories are assessed by Better Mining and mitigated through Better Mining CAPs, implemented by local stakeholders:
In 2020, across all 3TCC sites in the program:
1086 incidents registered
480 corrective action recommendations issued to stakeholders on the ground issued based on 392 incidents recorded in 2020
72% of recommended corrective actions are either implemented or in progress
346 corrective actions recommended by Better Mining implemented or in course of implementation
Pictures are taken from Better Mining fieldwork
CAP Implementation Progress across all 3TCC sites in the program
RCS Global CEO presentation on Better Mining
@ Volvo Cars Sustainability Dialogue 2019
Paper analysing Better Mining data collected in 2019 across 3TG, cobalt, and copper ASM sites.
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