Minery, a Brazilian mineral commodity trading marketplace, is adding digital traceability to its platform using Minespider’s blockchain. The integration offers additional assurance about the provenance of the minerals for sale and the immutability of the data, as well as ensuring that trades are secure.
Minery said its goal is to overhaul an inefficient mineral trading system with a completely digital marketplace. Due to the opaque nature of global supply chains, traders often buy and sell minerals at substantial premiums and negotiations can take up to six months. Minery’s platform has the potential to greatly reduce these fees and improve liquidity for mines, who can expect a more consistent cash flow.
“We believe that traceability is part of the future we are building, adding value to miners who work sustainably, respecting the environment and the people involved,” Minery Co-founder and CEO Eduardo Gama said. “With Minespider’s blockchain technology and Minery’s certification process, everyone will be able to know where their everyday metals came from and under what conditions they were produced.”
Founded in Brazil, a country with more than 9,400 active mines, Minery aims to promote small and medium-sized mining companies by helping them sell more effectively on the global market. They have developed Certimine, their certification that ensures all mines comply with international standards. The use of protective equipment, lack of environmental contamination, machinery and permits are just a few of the factors that registered Minery technicians verify on-site as part of the certification process. In this way, every mineral producer featured on Minery will be certified and every buyer can track the origin of their minerals, and the conditions under which they were produced.
Minespider has built a public, permissioned blockchain specially designed for raw material traceability. Their clients, including Minsur and LuNa Smelter, create blockchain-secured digital IDs called digital Product Passports to track their material shipments downstream. These passports contain information such as provenance data, due diligence documents and carbon emissions data. Beyond this, companies can use Minespider’s API to build on top of the Minespider blockchain. This means marketplaces like Minery benefit from the security, immutability and transparency of a blockchain, without having to build their own or have any blockchain development knowledge. This enables companies to add blockchain records to existing software applications or business processes, and design completely new business models.
“Marketplaces, traders and exchanges are realizing their value to global supply chains is far greater than arbitrage,” Minespider Founder and CEO Nathan Williams said. “They play a pivotal role in handling, distribution, market making, and now traceability and responsible sourcing. We’re pleased to announce this integration with Minery as the start of a wave of blockchain traceability adoption by the midtier of the supply chain.”
