You do not need to be a large mining company to enter Mineral Radar.
Qualification depends on evidence. A small trader who can substantiate material, authority and documentation progresses. A large company that cannot does not.
Who may enter
- Miners
- Title holders
- Processors
- Licensed buying centres
- Aggregators
- Small traders
- Established traders
- Exporters
- Properly mandated agents
What we will ask, and why
A submission begins as a claim. These are the questions Mineral Radar works through in order to establish what is behind it.
- Who are you, and what role do you perform?
- Who owns the material? If you do not own it, what authority allows you to market it?
- Where is the material, physically, now?
- How much of it exists at this moment?
- Where did it originate?
- What is the assay, and does it relate to this exact lot?
- Has radiological testing been performed?
- Can the material be independently inspected and sampled?
- Can chain of custody be established?
- Can legal purchasing or export authority be demonstrated?
- Have you transacted before, and can that history be substantiated?
Not every gap is a problem, and none of them is an accusation
Falling short at one stage does not mean anything improper has happened. Most of the time it means something ordinary:
- The material exists, but the grade is unsuitable for a particular buyer.
- The material is legitimate, but the quantity is insufficient for a shipment.
- The trader is legitimate, but lacks export capability and needs a partner who has it.
- The assay is sound, but provenance evidence has not been assembled.
- The documentation exists but needs remediation before a buyer's compliance team will accept it.
This is why verification states exist, and why they attach to individual claims rather than to you.
The question that matters most
When you write to us, the single most useful thing you can tell us is your current material status, and there is no wrong answer.
- A
- You physically control the material now.
- B
- A supplier you represent physically controls it, and you have authority to market it.
- C
- You can source the material once there is buyer interest or an order.
- D
- You are seeking material rather than offering current supply.
- E
- Something else, which you can describe in your own words.
C is a perfectly respectable commercial position and a great deal of trade is done that way. It is simply a different thing from A, and buyers need to know which one they are looking at. Telling us plainly costs you nothing and saves everyone weeks.