The growing demand for critical minerals presents an opportunity to advance responsible mineral development and build more competitive, resilient, and secure value chains. Achieving this requires stronger governance, better access to reliable information, and practical cooperation to identify and address risks across the critical minerals value chain.
The Minerals Integrity & Resilience Alliance (MIRA) is a global, private-sector-led platform bringing together mining and processing companies, downstream manufacturers, technology providers, and civil society partners. Members share knowledge, identify common challenges, develop practical tools to strengthen integrity, and implement long-term solutions.
Building Trusted, Resilient Critical Mineral Value Chains
MIRA brings together more than 40 leading companies and civil society organizations working with governments to strengthen integrity across relevant value chains.
Members collaborate to advance international standards, share practical experience, and develop innovative approaches to governance challenges. By leveraging expertise across sectors, minerals and jurisdictions, MIRA drives coordinated action that no single organization can achieve alone.
MIRA is committed, practical, and flexible in response to market conditions. Members can engage where their priorities and expertise are most relevant.
Early risk intelligence on emerging risks and policy developments affecting critical mineral markets and supply chains.
Access to trusted peer exchange with senior leaders across mining, processing, manufacturing, technology, and civil society.
Policy insights and opportunities to help shape international tools and approaches relevant to responsible mineral development.
Stronger visibility across complex supply chains, including political risk, governance, ownership, and traceability.
Opportunities to test and scale practical solutions through working groups, capacity-building programs, and technology-based initiatives.
A stronger foundation for investors, governments, and commercial partners to recognize and assess responsible business practices.
Improved preparedness for regulatory, due diligence, and market access requirements across a wide range of markets.
Members work with community peers and partners to identify shared integrity and resilience opportunities across critical mineral value chains and define where collective action makes a practical difference.
Activities include:
MIRA Meetings provide a regular forum for public-private cooperation, bringing together companies, governments, civil society organizations, and other stakeholders to exchange insights, identify shared governance risks, and develop practical responses. MIRA hosts two senior-level member meetings each year: one online and one in person alongside a major global conference.
Held on the sidelines of the EITI Global Summit, this meeting will bring members together to discuss critical minerals resilience, exchange intelligence on emerging risks, and shape the platform’s priorities for the year ahead.
Past Meetings
Inaugural MIRA Meeting – April 2026
Online
The first MIRA Meeting brought members together to examine emerging risks and begin translating collective priorities into a concrete work agenda. Sessions covered the evolving geopolitical and regulatory landscape; governance and integrity risks, from global dynamics to local operating realities; and practical approaches to supply chain security, traceability, corporate compliance, and investment readiness. The discussion directly informed MIRA’s ongoing work program.
MIRA members can participate in targeted working groups focused on priority governance challenges.
Traceability Working Group
The Traceability Working Group addresses visibility gaps that expose responsible companies to compliance risk and supply-chain disruption. Members collaborate to develop practical tools for traceability, chain of custody, and due diligence, supporting alignment with evolving supply-chain requirements and emerging good practices.
2. Building Resilience: Share Knowledge and Data Insights
Members contribute operational insight, market experience, risk perspectives, data, and technical expertise to strengthen shared understanding of where governance and market risks are concentrated, co-designing and scaling practical tools. Members take part in targeted initiatives across critical mineral value chains, including building technology –based tools, chain-of-custody protocols, and solution-testing activities.
Activities include:
MIRA members can contribute to developing a series of risk maps across mineral value chains and regions to build a global taxonomy of governance, integrity, and resilience risks. The work draws on member input to identify priority minerals, corridors, ownership structures, and value-chain vulnerabilities, supporting a more consistent understanding of where risks emerge and how they interact.
Series One: Tungsten and Tantalum in the Great Lakes Region, Africa
Series Two: Copper and Lithium in Latin America and the Caribbean
Series Three: Nickel and Rare-Earth elements in Asia
MIRA members can provide input into developing a three-part series of country-level governance roadmaps identifying key regulatory, ownership, and transparency gaps, alongside practical steps to address them.
Members can co-design a governance risk-mapping interactive tool covering priority mineral corridors and value chain nodes, from extraction to downstream manufacturing. Developed in partnership with Rovjok. Members contribute data, operational insight to shape what the Atlas tracks.
3. Advancing Solutions: Develop and Implement Practical Tools
Members take part in targeted initiatives that develop and implement practical solutions across critical mineral value chains, including building technological-based solutions and capacity building trainings.
Activities include:
MIRA members help identify priority governance issues and shape digital solutions that reduce risk and cost for companies operating responsibly in critical mineral markets. The hackathons bring together compliance professionals, civic technology developers, and government partners to design and test practical tools in response to challenges identified by members.
MIRA members can engage suppliers and other value-chain partners in capacity-building programs developed through PROTECT and delivered with local business associations. The training supports companies to align with international guidance and adopt practical solutions to strengthen responsible business conduct.
MIRA Member Quotes
Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance (IRMA)
IRMA’s impact relies on the private sector to demonstrate leadership on implementation of high-bar environmental and social practices across mineral supply chains. We are pleased to be a part of the Minerals Integrity and Resilience Alliance community to expand our collaboration with private and public sector leaders working to promote transparency, prevent corruption, and enhance integrity in the mining sector.
Kristi Disney Bruckner, Law & Policy Director
Global Compliance Management and
Response (GCMR)
The fight against corruption must continue to be waged at a local level with local partners who understand the most impactful ways to understand andaddress the actual risk. That is a key reason GCMR is pleased to be a part of the Minerals Integrity & Resilience Alliance community involved in the PROTECT initiative. With Private Sector Partners like GCMR engaged around the world, we are confident that this initiative will achieve significant results to reduce corruption risk and at times lack of transparency.
Mike Munro
Principal and Co-Founder
Kasi Desert Circuit
Responsible governance is not separate from development. It builds investor confidence, protects communities, and ensures Africa captures long-term value from its resources. At Kasi, we believe transparent governance, responsible ownership, and strong public-private collaboration are essential to creating long-term value for both communities and industry.
Dr. Waithera Wambugu
Founder
Integrity Bridge
The private sector is essential to the fight against corruption because it has the power to set ethical standards, drive accountability, and demand transparency across global supply chains. Integrity Bridge is honored to partner with CIPE’s Promoting Responsible Ownership Transparency in Critical Minerals (PROTECT) initiative, recognizing that transparency in critical minerals is more urgent than ever for sustainable growth and global security. Our motivation stems from a deep commitment to helping organizations build ethical resilience, and by fostering public-private partnerships, we can amplify efforts to combat corruption worldwide and ensure responsible ownership benefits all stakeholders.
Andrew McBride
Founder & Chief Executive Officer
BMW Group
Compliance is the cornerstone of BMW Group’s commitment to responsible raw material supply chains. It ensures that our and our suppliers’ operations enable equitable economic benefits, fostering sustainable development and ethical business practices across our global network.
Kai Ammann, Head of Raw Material Strategy and Risk Management
AtkinsRéalis
All businesses, especially those with a global presence, have a responsibility to drive change. It begins with being visible, engaging in discussions, and participating in initiatives like this!
Dr. Hentie Dirker, Chief ESG & Integrity Officer
Center for International Private
Enterprise (CIPE)
Critical minerals power our economies and are key to national security. Building resilient value chains requires transparency, strong partnerships, and a shared commitment to responsible and ethical sourcing.
Frank Brown
Director, Anti-Corruption & Governance
Council of African Youth In Minerals
I am proud to represent Africa’s youth as a member of the Minerals Integrity & Resilience Alliance (MIRA), championing transparency, traceability, and accountability across the critical minerals value chain. Together, we are advancing ethical resource governance, combating corruption, and ensuring Africa’s mineral wealth drives sustainable development, empowers communities, and creates lasting opportunities for current and future generations.
Arby Kane
President
ReElement Technologies
ReElement Technologies is proud to engage with MIRA and PROTECT to responsibly address U.S. national security vulnerabilities and revitalize domestic industry. Transparent and accountable governance is a key driver of reliable, sustainable, and ultimately successful private-public partnerships with local communities in support of American and allied objectives.
Ben Kincaid
CEO Africa
Centre for Cohesion and Development
Africa’s critical mineral reserves provide an opportunity to reshape its future through deliberate choices to avoid dependency and drive transformation. It offers pathways to accelerate growth, industrialisation, and regional integration.
Dr. Uche Igwe
Director, Lead Researcher
Initiative des Femmes Entrepreneurs pour le
Développement Durable (IFEDD)
Integrity and transparency are essential to building a responsible mining sector in the DRC. Through the PROTECT project, we promote anti-corruption, due diligence, traceability, accountability, and community participation to ensure that critical minerals equitably benefit women, youth, local communities, and future generations.
Mariana Bwema
Executive Director
Join MIRA
Membership in MIRA is open and free to organizations prepared to engage actively by contributing expertise, shaping priorities, and implementing solutions alongside peers.
The core commitment is straightforward: members designate a senior representative, participate in biannual MIRA meetings, and contribute to at least one relevant workstream, forum, or practical initiative. There is no fee for membership.
Members commit to:
Designate a senior executive to represent the organization in MIRA
Participate in biannual MIRA meetings
Contribute knowledge and expertise to collective analysis and forums
Implement and promote solutions developed through MIRA and share learnings with the broader community.
