Responsible Minerals CreditsPilot · Kolwezi, DRC
Engage in support of ASM. Verifiably.
Oreka is the digital infrastructure for the Responsible Minerals Credits scheme. Issuance, record, retirement: the operational layer of book-and-claim for artisanal mining.
§ 01 What Oreka does
Five elements articulate the scheme. Their relationships are the registry.
Each element is a domain primitive of the Responsible Minerals Credits scheme. Workflows operate on them; the certificate registry is what emerges.
Mine
01
Participating artisanal mine sites with eligibility recorded under one or more configurable frameworks.
Production
02
Output declared at the mine. Eligible production backs certificate issuance, one certificate per integer production unit.
Certificate
03
The connector. Issued, assigned, retired against a reporting period.
Project
04
Community-governed mine improvement interventions: health, safety, gender equality, child labour prevention.
Partner
05
Downstream company purchasing certificates proportional to its sourcing of the underlying mineral.
§ 02 How it works
From a sourcing commitment to a worker-led project at the mine.
- 01Verified productionMine sites meeting the eligibility standard declare output for the reporting period.
- 02Sourcing commitmentA downstream company commits to fund improvement work, proportional to its estimated artisanal and small-scale mining footprint of the underlying mineral.
- 03Capital flowsFunds reach a worker-governed Fund Allocation Committee at the mine site.
- 04Worker-led investmentProjects are voted by mine workers themselves, with at least 30% earmarked for women-centric interventions.
- 05Verifiable disclosureThe downstream company evidences engagement against OECD Due Diligence Guidance Step 3 in its sustainability reporting.
Each commitment is recorded as a certificate that connects the company's contribution to specific verified production and to the projects funded from its proceeds. The certificate is the proof, not the product.
§ 03 Consortium
