Built for Government. Connected to Industry.

• A route into the formal economy. We help mine owners understand and meet licensing, safety and environmental requirements, and we issue a Certified MUCC code only to mines that hold a valid legal permission for the activities concerned.

• A reason to stay formal. Owners of verified mines can sell to approved buyers who need checked supply, which makes the legal route worth taking.

• Production and sales on the record. Every verified mine, and every lot it sells through an approved provider, is recorded against its MUCC code, with weight, assay results and buyer. That supports the production, royalty and export records government keeps.

• Safer, cleaner sites. Training in safe working and preventing child labour, site checks, and corrective action plans with deadlines.

• Evidence for policy. Aggregated, anonymised data on production, compliance and support needs, shared under agreement and in line with each country’s data-protection law.

• Firm controls. Eligibility checks, red-flag screening, suspension, and reporting where the law requires.

• Government licenses mines, sets the rules, collects royalties and taxes, and controls exports. ASMRAF never replaces any of this.

• ASMRAF, a not-for-profit, sets the requirements, verifies mines, decides each mine’s status, and runs complaints and appeals. It doesn’t buy or sell minerals or handle payments.

• The MUCC code is the mine’s permanent identity: one code per mine, for life. Every lot the mine sells is recorded under it.

• Approved providers, such as MinePay, support the sale through technology, transaction records and documents. Payment providers carry out payments under separate arrangements. They use the MUCC code under ASMRAF’s terms. Any provider that meets the requirements can apply, and ASMRAF’s agreement with MinePay is non-exclusive.

• Approved buyers agree to buy from ASMRAF mines only once their code is Certified, and keep doing their own due diligence.

• Independent auditors are part of the proposed assurance structure. An auditor and appointment date have not yet been confirmed.

How ASMRAF is governed

• National law comes first: no Certified MUCC code without a valid legal permission for the activities concerned.
• Verification is designed around the five steps of the OECD Due Diligence Guidance for minerals, including its risks for conflict-affected and high-risk areas.
• The framework considers recognised chain-of-custody approaches; no ISO conformity or accreditation is claimed.
• Any support for national reporting must be agreed with the relevant government. No EITI recognition or reporting integration is claimed.

Read the MUCC standard

• Hosting location, cross-border safeguards and data-sharing arrangements must be checked before real registration opens. South Africa is the first launch country; the draft privacy notice explains the proposed controls.
• Government receives aggregated, anonymised reports by default. Records of named mines are shared only where national law requires it.
• We never publish where minerals are produced, and we never sell data.

1. Briefing

   We brief your ministry or regulator on the framework, the data and the safeguards.

2. Pilot design

   Together we agree a pilot area, the minerals, the data to be shared and how success will be measured.

3. Agreement

   A memorandum of understanding and a data-sharing agreement, under national law.

4. Pilot

   Joint training for mine owners, mine workers and officials, verification in the pilot area, and regular reports.

5. Review

   An independent review of the results before any wider rollout.

The proposed Regulatory Coordination Forum would bring ministries, geological surveys and local authorities together on licensing, tax and export controls.