Certified trading chains in mineral production: A way to improve responsibility in mining

Non-Renewable Resource Issues: Geoscientific and Societal Challenges

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 213-227

  Franken, Gudrun ^a   Vasters, Jürgen ^a   Dorner, Ulrike ^a   Melcher, Frank ^a   Sitnikova, Maria ^a   Goldmann, Simon ^a  

^a FEDERAL INSTITUTE FOR GEOSCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES BGR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Afp; Analytical fingerprint; Artisanal mining; Asm; Coltan; Conflict minerals; CTC; Democratic republic of congo; Due diligence; Mineral certification; Rwanda

Indexed keywords

EID: 85027381825     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-8679-2_11     Document Type: Chapter

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