{
  "id": 16959097,
  "title": "Veramark launches platform for responsible metals sourcing",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/28/veramark-launches-platform-for-responsible-metals-sourcing",
  "topic": "finance",
  "section": "Finance & Markets",
  "published": "2026-10-28T21:18:10.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Mining.com",
    "slug": "mining-com",
    "url": "https://www.mining.com/veramark-launches-platform-for-responsible-metals-sourcing/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Veramark Assurance, formerly known as the Copper Mark, has launched a new Responsible Metals Value Chain Platform aimed at promoting transparency, collaboration, and responsible production and sourcing across the minerals and metals value chain. The platform brings together a wide range of stakeholders, including miners, smelters, refiners, fabricators, recyclers, traders, manufacturers, financial institutions, and other industry players. By joining forces, these companies can address shared challenges and develop practical initiatives to support responsible and resilient value chains. The platform includes a Responsible Metals Value Chain Forum, Value Chain Groups focused on collaboration on key issues such as transparency, traceability, greenhouse gas emissions, and recycled content, as well as a Value Chain Online Hub that serves as a repository for platform materials, tools, and industry insights. Over 20 companies have already signed up as Value Chain Partners, agreeing to the Value Chain Platform Charter, and the inaugural Value Chain Forum will take place on November 30 in London, UK. Veramark CEO Michèle Brülhart emphasized the importance of responsible production extending beyond the mine site to ensure transparency, information exchange, and cooperation across the entire value chain.",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}