Responsible sourcing requires more than a supplier declaration. The parties should understand the mineral’s origin, control points, payment route and exposure to legal, sanctions, corruption, conflict or human-rights risk.
Supply-chain map
Identify each entity and location from extraction or stock origin to the final buyer.
- Mine, licence, stock or recycling source
- Producer, exporter and intermediary entities
- Transport, storage and processing points
- Contracting, invoicing and payment entities
- Final refiner, processor or industrial customer
Risk controls
The depth of review should increase with the value, jurisdiction, mineral and complexity of the chain.
- Identity and beneficial ownership
- Authority and lawful origin
- Sanctions, PEP and adverse information
- Anti-bribery and payment controls
- Environmental, labour, community and security concerns
Recorded decision
A risk should be accepted, mitigated, escalated or rejected explicitly.
- Define the legal entity, authorised representative and precise transaction objective.
- Separate public-facing information from confidential technical, corporate and financial evidence.
- Test consistency across titles, quantities, ownership, licence status, location and commercial assumptions.
- Record unresolved questions, third-party verification needs and the decision required from the next counterparty.
- Move to introduction, data room or mandate only when the minimum information standard is met.
How Georgia Mining Industry can support the process
GMI can organise the initial information request, separate public material from protected documents, coordinate preliminary counterparty review, open a controlled introduction or private deal room, and record agreed commercial steps. Every transaction remains subject to written authority, independent technical and legal review, compliance checks and a separately agreed mandate.