A mineral changes hands long before it reaches your business. Aseri helps miners, traders, smelters, refiners and downstream buyers connect its origin to the people, relationships and places behind it.
Follow the physical material alongside ownership and geography. A missing link at a trade hand-off changes the questions to ask next. Select a mineral to explore.
Hypothetical examples, not findings about these countries or actual suppliers. A reported connection still needs verification.
Tin from Bolivia: illustrative evidence trail.
Bring the three tracks together. Record the gaps, the action owner and what must be checked before the next decision.
At an aggregator or refinery, the evidence question changes: which incoming material supports the origin declared for the metal you buy? Start with a defined purchase and work back through its hand-offs.
The useful output is a traceable account of the purchase: evidence reviewed, connections supported and questions still open. Give each missing link a named contact and an agreed evidence request.
A declared country of origin starts an enquiry. Site-level context helps examine conflict and security arrangements, labour conditions, community relationships and environmental impacts. Provenance documents should lead to questions that can be checked with people close to the operation.
Commodity, Country and Industry Risk Intelligence connects the material, location and business activity. Continually updated national and sub-national CAHRA intelligence helps flag conflict-affected and high-risk area context for closer enquiry. Neither replaces a site-specific assessment.
Pin down the extraction site, collection area and transport route before applying that context. Note the source and date behind each location. Workers and neighbours can raise concerns that a shipment record cannot answer; agree how to hear from them safely and revisit differences between their accounts and the documents.
For a difficult origin, trading relationship or investment, Aseri’s risk intelligence service brings research and expert analysis to the question your team needs to resolve.
Document review, worker engagement and community experience inform the same decision. What happens next should have an owner and a route back to the people affected.
Our audit and assurance work examines traceability records, supplier practices and operating conditions. Human rights risk assessments help prioritise concerns; impact assessments explore how workers and communities are affected.
Available audit tools support AI-assisted reviews, risk-led question frameworks, audit delivery and auditor management, including job assignment and progress monitoring. Use the unresolved provenance questions to shape the audit brief. Expert judgement connects those tools to the evidence gathered.
Aseri’s consulting team helps translate findings into management systems, supplier policy and practical training. Set clear requirements at onboarding, strengthen grievance processes and agree corrective actions with suppliers.
Where harm is identified, plan remediation with affected people and follow up on its effectiveness. Keep responsibility visible through purchasing reviews, supplier engagement and the next assessment.
A review should make the next purchasing conversation possible. Bring verified information and remaining uncertainty into one account, so buyers understand which conditions need attention before a new order or supplier renewal.
Agree whether to seek further evidence, commission a targeted assessment or escalate the relationship for a sourcing decision. Consider how any change in purchasing could affect workers and communities, and how those effects will be followed up.
Bring the mineral, the sourcing question and the records you have. We’ll help you decide what to verify and how to act.