Research project NamiRo for certification of mineral resources launched

16th December 2014, Kassel (Germany)

Beak Consultants GmbH is business partner within the research project "Sustainably extracted mineral resources: a multi-stakeholder process to develop a certification system“ (NamiRo), sponsored by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). In conjunction with the project partners, the University of Kassel (project coordinator) and the BGR (Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources), a system for standardisation or certification will be developed from January 2015 to December 2017. It aims to document and assess the extraction and processing of mineral resources in terms of sustainability in a transparent way along the supply chain.

More information can be found on the NamiRo project website.