RESPONSIBLE MINING

BMW Group has become the first member of the automotive sector to join the Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance (Irma). Irma is a global certification programme for industrial-scale mine sites and is based on the growing awareness and demand for…

Congo’s biggest miner of coltan, an ore that is the source of metals used in mobile phones, says it is leaving the ITSCI certification scheme, relied on by major companies as a guarantee that minerals are free from human rights abuses. Societe Miniere …