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Global Experts & Associates
Nature’s Wealth maintains a network of vetted, worldclass talent to serve its diverse clients’ needs in critical minerals and jewelry supply chains. Select profiles are listed below.
Critical minerals: COBALT, COPPER, LITHIUM, MICA, NICKEL
Karen Hayes, Responsible Base Metals
You have likely already benefitted from Karen’s leadership in mineral sourcing and not yet realized it.
Karen Hayes is one of the foundational leaders of responsible mineral sourcing from high-risk environments. Active in the DRC and Rwanda since 2001, she became an early expert in tantalum, tin, tungsten, copper, and cobalt supply chains. Working alongside industry, mining communities, and NGOs, she co-developed early due diligence and practical traceability efforts focused on ensuring that artisanal miners were not excluded from responsible sourcing but rather could benefit from work security and market access. This early innovation and her contributions to the OECD’s Due Diligence Guidelines for Responsible Sourcing (such as through the early days of its actual practical implementation) and her work on commercial ASM-LSM coexistence, has shaped the responsible mineral field itself.
Learn more
- Learn about the Mutoshi Project in DRC’s Copperbelt that Karen catalysed, launched, and oversaw whilst at Pact, a nonprofit organization where she was the longtime Vice President of Mining. The Mutoshi Project was a commercial effort of ASM-LSM cohabitation, and corporate, NGO, and government delegations came from around the world to observe it in action. Karen is featured in this video by Trafigura, one of the largest global mineral traders, which was a key partner.
- Read more about the project’s direct community benefits in this independent report here.
Want to team up with Karen? Message us through the “Contact Us” section of this website and we can discuss your precise needs.
Global Associates: Latin America and Africa
Working nimbly and with excellence requires the right people in the right places. Over the years, our team has spotted and allied with fellow changemakers and responsible sourcing experts across multiple disciplines in this complex space. This history means that we have immediate access to most rooms that others would struggle to even learn about. We bring immediate credibility and authentic global networks to work with, innovate, learn, and improve.
Some people work behind the scenes, while others are global names. We look forward to pairing you with the right expert for your challenge and geography. Expertise spans political economy analysis, environmental due diligence, mining engineering, geology and exploration, ASM-LSM, and high risk human rights issues in major mining environments and trading environments.
JEWELLERY: Responsible sourcing & trade
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