Commodity Profile Fact Sheets
A series of commodity profile fact sheets highlighting key trends, risks, and opportunities across the mining life cycle.
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Country Profile Fact Sheets
A series of country profile fact sheets offering a clear snapshot of the strengths, challenges, and opportunities within each country's critical minerals sector and at the regional level.
Stocktake of Sustainability Standards and Initiatives for Minerals and Metals
A joint report between the UN Environment Programme and the Intergovernmental Forum on Mining, Minerals, Metals and Sustainable Development maps over 100 sustainability standards and initiatives operating across value chains.
Strategic Minerals for Africa's Industry
This series profiles several strategic minerals, covering demand, recycling, Africa's mining and refining share, trade risks, environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues, as well as pathways for equitable resource-based industrialization.
Navigating Global Sustainability Standards in the Mining Sector
This brief examines the latest developments and trends in responsible mining standards and voluntary sustainability initiatives.
What Makes Minerals and Metals "Critical"?
Exploring how governments define what should be considered as "strategic" or "critical" based on a series of objective criteria.
ASGM Tailings Management and Reprocessing Governance
This report outlines technical aspects, governance frameworks, and policy recommendations for artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) tailings management and reprocessing.
Searching for Critical Minerals? How metals are produced and associated together
Outlining how metals are produced and are associated together in mineral deposits, focusing on critical minerals for the energy transition.
The Impacts of Climate Change on the Mining Sector
This brief provides an overview of how climate change will affect the global mining sector.