Nexus StandardsIndustry, Trade and Supply ChainsSectors and industries
Area · proposed

Mining and extractives

The mining and extractives section of the Industry, Trade and Supply Chains subsite covers mining, oil and gas and quarrying operators, host governments and investors: how tailings, site hazard, transition-mineral supply and revenue transparency records are identified and verified, crosswalked to the Global Industry Standard on Tailings Management, the EITI Standard and nature disclosure. Every artifact of the area carries a UNI (Unique Nexus Identifier), which identifies and never certifies.

Area recordIndustry, Trade and Supply Chains
  1. TierSectors and industries
  2. Registryproposed area · no registry row yet
  3. Nexus StandardsNS-0, NS-3, NS-3b, NS-9, NS-10, NS-11
  4. Open standards4
  5. Feeds3 · 0 admitted
  6. Couplings4
  7. Last reviewed2026-10-17

Context entry PROPOSED for the Nexus Standards registry.

UNI
requested · not yet allocated
Status
PROPOSEDproposed area · no registry row yet
Last reviewed
area context bank
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Nexus Standards (2026). Mining and extractives: area brief, Industry, Trade and Supply Chains (PROPOSED). https://nexustandards.com/industry-trade/mining-and-extractives/. Last reviewed 2026-10-17.

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01Scope

Mining and extractives: what the area covers, and what it leaves to others.

The sectors and industries section of Industry, Trade and Supply Chains. Scope as the area context entry states it (PROPOSED).

In scope 5

  • Tailings facility inventory, consequence classification and monitoring records
  • Earth-observation monitoring of sites, deformation and land disturbance
  • Transition-mineral production and concentration records
  • Revenue and contract transparency records (EITI)
  • Mine closure and post-closure obligations as clauses

Out of scope 3

  • Geotechnical design or dam safety reviews
  • Mineral resource estimation
  • Licensing decisions

Jurisdictions No jurisdiction note is recorded for this area yet; jurisdiction narrows what applies and never implies that a Nexus profile satisfies a law.

02Nexus Standards that apply

6 Nexus Standards for this area.

The Nexus Standards the area context entry lists. Every one is proposed or specified; none is adopted by an authority.

  1. 01

    NS-0 · Constitution and principles

    Status proposed · 12 rules stated. Read NS-0

  2. 02

    NS-3 · GRIx record UNIs (grammar, legacy crosswalk, allocation authority)

    Status proposed · 0 rules stated. Read NS-3

  3. 03

    NS-3b · Dataset and product metadata profile (STAC, DCAT, PROV-O)

    Status proposed · 0 rules stated. Read NS-3b

  4. 04

    NS-9 · Contextual UNIs (deployments, instances, programme instances)

    Status proposed · 5 rules stated. Read NS-9

  5. 05

    NS-10 · Policies and clauses (machine-readable obligations, enforcement in commons and command rooms)

    Status proposed · 7 rules stated. Read NS-10

  6. 06

    NS-11 · Verification and monitoring (evidence, attestations, zero-trust conformance observation)

    Status proposed · 6 rules stated. Read NS-11

03Open standards

4 open standards, each with its relation.

Relations are register entries (NS-14), never conformance or equivalence statements; hover or focus a relation for its meaning. Names of standards bodies and their standards belong to their stewards and are used only to identify the documents; no text of an external standard is reproduced here.

04Restricted compatibility profiles

No closed standard is named for this area.

Closed or paywalled standards appear by name and link only; any compatibility profile of one is built on simulated data and kept on protected pages until an institutional arrangement with the issuing body is recorded. Nexus Standards is not affiliated with, endorsed by or certified by any standards body named here.

The working group may name closed standards later; they would be listed here by name and link only.

05Hazards and sectors

What acts on this area, and who carries it.

Hazards and threats 5

Tailings dam failureLandslides and slope failureSeismicityWater contaminationSupply concentration

Sectors 1

industry
06Systemic couplings

4 couplings to other areas and subsites.

Each coupling names the mechanism that links this area to another; select a card on the canvas to trace it. Mechanisms are stated in the context bank (PROPOSED).

Canvas · the area and its couplingsDesign, not a record
Mining and extractives: systemic couplingsThe couplings the area context bank records for Mining and extractives: 0 areas in Industry, Trade and Supply Chains, 4 areas in other subsites and 4 subsites reached. Each coupling carries a mechanism stated in the context bank (PROPOSED); a reading aid, not a dependency proof.

Fig.RUNNING marks the area you are reading; DONE an area in the same subsite, QUEUED an area elsewhere and GATE a subsite reached. Tags give reading order only, never a status. Design, not a record.

  1. Water utilities and basinsWater and Food SystemsMine water use and tailings failures affect downstream water supply and basin quality.
  2. Energy utilities and gridsEnergy and Critical InfrastructureTransition minerals supply grids, batteries and renewables; concentration creates supply risk for the energy transition.
  3. Asset owners and asset managementFinance, Insurance and the EconomyInvestors rely on tailings and transparency disclosures to assess extractive holdings.
  4. Geophysical hazard standardsHazards and Disaster Risk ReductionSeismic and slope hazards act on tailings facilities and open pits.
07Data and feeds

3 sources, with provider, licence and delivery path.

Sources the area reads or proposes. Delivery follows GRIx first; a source is shown live only after an owner decision admits it for public pages.

Every feed · pending admission

No legal register row admits any of these sources for live display on public pages yet, so nothing is read from them here. A register row that exists records the source for the governed GRIx path; admission for public pages is a separate owner decision.

Admitted
0
none yet
Register row exists
1
recorded for the GRIx path
Proposed row
2
terms to be recorded
Delivery
1 GRIx · 0 plugin · 0 browser · 2 snapshot
GRIx first, then plugin, browser-direct, snapshot
09Readiness

What each pathway can read from this area.

GCRI Canada evidence pathway

GCRI Canada

Tailings and site monitoring records with EO provenance become readable as evidence for GCRI Canada research under its own rules.

Open the GCRI Canada evidence pathway

Recognition pathway

The Global Risks Forum (GRF)

An operator or host government that publishes tailings and transparency clauses with attestations gives GRF a record trail to consider; recognition is not implied.

Open the Recognition pathway

Capital pathway

The Global Risks Alliance (GRA)

Responsible-mining and closure investments can present verified site-risk and disclosure records to GRA, which decides capital readiness.

Open the Capital pathway

Each institution decides under its own rules what it reads as evidence; no pathway is an approval, a readiness statement or investment advice.

11Audiences

Who works with this area: 4 audiences.

  1. Mining operators
  2. Host governments and regulators
  3. Investors and lenders
  4. Downstream communities
12Working group

The working-group charter, proposed.

Scope

Profile tailings, site-hazard, mineral supply and transparency records and crosswalk them to GISTM, the EITI Standard and nature disclosure.

No working group is chartered yet; a community may charter this one under NS-13 through a docket.

Deliverables · 3
  1. Tailings facility record profile citing GISTM requirements by number
  2. EO monitoring product profile on STAC for site deformation
  3. EITI data crosswalk for revenue records
Liaison targets · 4
  • Global Tailings Review co-convenors (UNEP, PRI, ICMM) liaison sought
  • EITI International Secretariat liaison sought
  • USGS National Minerals Information Center liaison sought
  • TNFD liaison sought
13Open problems

3 open problems an expert would start with.

  1. There is no public, global, versioned inventory of tailings facilities with consequence classification.
  2. EO deformation monitoring results are not linked to facility identifiers or to operator disclosures.
  3. Transition-mineral concentration data lag market changes by more than a year.
14References

4 sourced references.

Peer-reviewed sources and published statistics on the publishers' own domains, as the context entry cites them.

  1. published statisticsRecommendations of the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial DisclosuresTNFD · 2023
  2. published statisticsSendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030UNDRR · 2015
  3. standardEITI Standard 2023Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative · 2023
  4. standardGlobal Industry Standard on Tailings ManagementGlobal Tailings Review (UNEP, PRI and ICMM) · 2020
15Learning

Risk Academy faculties for this area.

Plain links to the faculty pages of Risk Academy; no course, credential, recognition or endorsement is implied.

16Key terms

Terms used on this page.

UNI
Unique Nexus Identifier: identifies and resolves an artifact and its record; it never certifies truth, readiness or approval.
PROPOSED
Drafted content that no authority has adopted. Every area entry here is a proposal to the Nexus Standards registry.
crosswalk
Relation: Nexus clauses are mapped to parts of the external standard by number, never by text.
adopt
Relation: the external standard is used as published, values validated against it.
pending admission
No legal register row admits this source for display on public pages yet, so nothing is read from it.
GRIx
The governed data layer of Nexus Foundry: external data is read through it with its licence and source release.
docket
A public change record under NS-13, decided by editors with written reasons.
attestation
An evaluator's recorded result for one clause and one subject under NS-11; never a certification.
liaison sought
A liaison the working group would ask the body for; none is held unless the body confirms it in writing.
18Learn and apply

Where Mining and extractives is taught, worked on and run.

Risk Academy disciplines that teach Mining and extractives, with their courses; the GCRI Canada, The Global Risks Forum (GRF) and The Global Risks Alliance (GRA) subsites that carry those disciplines; and the Nexus Foundry systems the standards name. Mappings are proposed for review (Risk Academy standards map, 2026-10-17); a link says a page on the same subject exists, never an endorsement or a conformance statement; framework names in course titles are named and linked, never reproduced.

Risk Academy

Disciplines and courses

19Questions

Questions and answers.

Is the Mining and extractives area adopted?
No. The area entry is PROPOSED content for the Nexus Standards registry; there is no registry row yet. Adoption of any standard is a recorded authority decision and none is recorded today.
Are the feeds on this page live?
No. Every feed is pending admission: no legal register row admits it for public pages yet, so nothing is read from it here.
How do I change this brief?
Through a docket under NS-13: a pull request against the area context bank or the registry, decided by editors with written reasons.
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Shape this brief: Mining and extractives.

Propose a change, join the working group or name a source. Area entries are PROPOSED content for the Nexus Standards registry; a UNI identifies and never certifies, and nothing on this site is a certification, an approval or a readiness statement.

Nexus Standards documents CC BY 4.0 · tooling Apache-2.0 · counsel review pending (DEC-2026-10-16-NEXUS-STANDARDS-OPEN-LICENCE). External standards are named and linked under their own licences; a UNI (Unique Nexus Identifier) identifies, it never certifies. · Generated from the Nexus Standards corpus at commit 437ae044c5cb (2026-10-17); proposed and open.

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