Carbon and water footprints for mining, from deposit to port.
We measure the emissions and water of each operation at the level of detail investors, critical-mineral buyers and communities ask for: the site mapped as a polygon, the fleet and blasting stage by stage, electricity with its contracts, and water by basin, month by month.
GHG Protocol
ISO 14064‑1
ISO 14046
ISO 14067
GRI 14
SASB EM-MM
CDP
IFRS S2
Lithium evaporation ponds. In brine operations, water is the indicator people ask about most.
Value chain
Every stage of the operation, with its emissions
A mine's footprint isn't a single number: it is the sum of stages with very different sources. So the inventory is built stage by stage, and every source sits in its scope.
Drilling and blasting
Drill rig diesel
Explosives, with their emission factor
Loading and hauling
Shovel and haul truck diesel
Tyres and spare parts
Processing plant
Electricity, location- and market-based
Generators, boilers and dryers
Reagents: lime, soda ash, acids
Tailings and ponds
Water consumed and evaporated, by basin
Equipment refrigerants
Transport to port
Own fleet
Contracted truck, rail and ship, under ISO 14083
Use of sold product
Processing of the concentrate or salt by the customer (category 10)
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Scope 1
Scope 2
Scope 3
Water
Territory
The site, mapped as a polygon
Every mine, plant and camp goes in with its real boundaries, imported from Google Earth or a GIS. With the polygon, the platform calculates the occupied area and checks satellite imagery for land use change and since when.
It also measures each site's distance to protected areas, Ramsar sites and key biodiversity areas, which is what CDP and the GRI 14 standard ask about.
Occupied area
Hectares per site, for the inventory and the land use disclosure.
Land use change
Satellite series of the polygon: conversion year and previous use, with the evidence on file.
Biodiversity
Distance to protected and key biodiversity areas, with their category.
GRI 14 sites
The list of mine sites for disclosure 14.0.1 builds itself from the sites.
Lithium operation · 3 sitesIllustrative example
Occupied area
1,240 ha
Land use change
2018 · steppe
Protected area
4.2 km away
Basin scarcity
High
Water
The water footprint, basin by basin and month by month
In mining, water often weighs more than carbon in the conversation with investors and communities. So reporting cubic metres isn't enough: you have to say where and when they are consumed.
Following ISO 14046, each site's consumption is weighted by its basin's scarcity factor for each month. A cubic metre in the dry season of an endorheic basin is not worth the same as one in a wet basin.
Monthly scarcity
The basin's scarcity factor for every month of the year, not an annual average.
Basin risk
Regulatory and reputational risk of every basin the company operates in.
Consumption and discharges
Water withdrawn, consumed and discharged per site, with effluent quality.
Same inventory
The water footprint comes from the same sites and consumption as the carbon footprint.
We compare your targets with those of mining and metals companies in the region that have entered the Science Based Targets process: how many have a validated target, what reduction they commit to, and by when.
How do your targets compare with your sector in the region?
Illustrative values. Universe: sector companies that entered the SBTi process.
Frequently asked questions
In scope 1, fleet, drilling and generation fuels, and refrigerants. In scope 2, electricity, location- and market-based. In scope 3, reagents and inputs, explosives, capital goods, transport to port and processing of the sold product, among other categories.
Following ISO 14046: water consumed at each site is weighted by its basin's scarcity factor, month by month, because consuming in the dry season is not the same as in the wet season. We also report the regulatory and reputational risk of each basin.
Yes. The same inventory produces the content index for the GRI 14 Mining 2024 standard, with mine sites loaded from your sites, the indicators of the SASB Metals & Mining standard (EM-MM), starting with scope 1 emissions, and drafts of the CDP and IFRS S2 questionnaires.
Yes. The inventory is broken down by site, and the product footprint, for example per tonne of concentrate or lithium carbonate, is calculated under ISO 14067.
We report both figures the GHG Protocol requires: location-based, with the grid factor, and market-based, with each site's contractual instruments and the residual mix for the rest of the consumption.
Want to see your operation in the platform?
Bring your site boundaries and consumption data, and in the demo we'll show you the inventory by stage and the water footprint by basin.
