This document surveys the range of existing sustainability frameworks available for critical mineral supply chains to aid understanding and assist in improving an organization’s sustainability outcomes. It includes an analysis of: — the requirements contained in existing sustainability guides or frameworks and where these tools are similar and where they diverge; — sustainability topic areas within existing guides and frameworks that have been accepted in different regions and jurisdictions. This document did not assess the effectiveness of existing standards or frameworks in improving the sustainability performance of their users or how performance was assessed. The results show that the existing sustainability frameworks are extensive and varied in the upstream supply chain. The analysis undertaken as part of this document will help inform the development of potential future ISO work programs and standards development, without duplicating or conflicting with existing frameworks. This document can also be used by organizations outside of ISO with respect to understanding available sustainability standards or frameworks.

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SIGNIFICANCE AND USE
5.1 This guide is intended for use by developers of RMs and CRMs for the metals and mining industries.  
5.2 The guidance is related to uniform procedures and requirements and is intended to prevent the proliferation of widely varying documentation practices, definitions, and terminology. Where the statements in this guide are made as imperatives, it is because the stated practices are fundamental to chemical metrology, not to CRM/RM development.  
5.3 The material in this guide is intended to supplement and to clarify the contents of ISO Guide 31 and to provide guidance specific to the needs of the metals and mining industries.  
5.4 The documents described in this guide are intended to contain the minimum amount of information required for a user to understand the material, to help a user judge the quality of the product, and to help a user employ it in appropriate ways. Neither this guide nor resultant documents are meant to be encyclopedic.  
5.5 Because this document is a standard guide, it is intended to educate those who are involved in laboratory operation, quality system development and maintenance, reference material development, and accreditation of laboratory operations within the scope of a quality system. It must be understood by all parties that the elements of this guide discuss optional practices having numerous choices for accomplishment and documentation. However, this guide does not constitute requirements for assessment and accreditation. An obvious example is statistical evaluation for consensus value and uncertainty calculations, which can take many forms with no single, correct choice for any given case.  
5.6 When using this guide, CRM developers will set goals for the material under development, such as target uncertainties for homogeneity and for overall coverage intervals for assigned values. These choices are based on the intended uses of a CRM. The material, property values, and their uncertainties may or may not meet the set goals...
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1.1 This guide is designed to explain and to clarify documentation that accompanies an RM or a certified reference material (CRM). It explains the contents of certificates of analysis for CRMs and product information documents for RMs, based on existing international standards and guides. It briefly touches on the minimum requirements for a label attached to the CRM/RM unit or unit container and to the package containing the unit or unit container.  
1.2 This guide provides some basic guidance on calculation of consensus values and uncertainty estimates for CRMs and RMs with examples of approaches commonly used by national metrology institutes and suggestions for sources of information.  
1.3 Units—The values stated in SI units are to be regarded as the standard, whenever applicable. Values can be traceable to other higher-order reference systems, including Rockwell Hardness, pH, and other systems defined by an international standard or peer-reviewed publication.  
1.4 Contents—Sections and topics within this guide are enumerated below:    
Section  
Title  
1  
Scope  
2  
Referenced Documents  
3  
Terminology  
4  
Summary of Guide  
5  
Significance and Use  
6  
Contents of a Certificate of Analysis or Reference Material Documentation  
7  
Labels  
8  
Technical and Statistical Evaluations  
9  
Procedures for Consensus Value Calculations  
10  
Estimation of Uncertainty  
11  
Reporting Values and Uncertainty Estimates  
12  
International System of Units  
13  
Keywords  
Appendix X1  
Working Near Zero  
Appendix X2  
Working Near 100 %  
Appendix X3  
Censored Values  
Appendix X4  
Examples of Language for Sections of a Certificate of Analysis  
1.5 This standard does not purport to address all of the safety concerns, if any, associated with its use. It is the responsibility of the user of this standard to establish appropriate safety, health, and enviro...

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SIGNIFICANCE AND USE
5.1 These methods are primarily intended to be used for the determination of silver correction in the fire assay silver determination. Silver assays are determined by fire assay for the purpose of metallurgical exchange between seller and buyer.  
5.2 It is assumed that all who use this method will be trained analysts capable of performing skillfully and safely. It is expected that work will be performed in a properly equipped laboratory under appropriate quality control practices such as those described in Guide E882.
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1.1 This practice covers the determination of silver corrections for fire assay of metal bearing ores, concentrates, and related metallurgical materials using the spent slags and cupels from the fire assay process, by gravimetry and atomic absorption spectrophotometry.  
1.2 The test methods appear in the following order:    
Sections  
Gravimetric Method  
10–11  
Atomic Absorption Method  
12–13  
1.3 Units—The values stated in SI units are to be regarded as standard. No other units of measurement are included in this standard.  
1.4 This standard does not purport to address all of the safety concerns, if any, associated with its use. It is the responsibility of the user of this standard to establish appropriate safety, health, and environmental practices and determine the applicability of regulatory limitations prior to use. (See Practices E50 and ISO Guide 35:1989.)  
1.5 This international standard was developed in accordance with internationally recognized principles on standardization established in the Decision on Principles for the Development of International Standards, Guides and Recommendations issued by the World Trade Organization Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT) Committee.

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SIGNIFICANCE AND USE
5.1 This test method is intended as a means for obtaining an extract from mine rock samples. The extract may be used to estimate the final pH and release of certain constituents of the test sample under the laboratory conditions described in this test method.  
5.2 The pH of the extraction fluid used in this test method should reflect the pH of precipitation in the geographic region in which the mine rock is being evaluated.  
5.3 This test method is designed to mobilize potential contaminants present in the solids, so that the resulting extract can be used to assess leachate that could potentially be produced from mine rock in the field.  
5.4 This test method has not been demonstrated to simulate actual site leaching conditions.  
5.5 This test method produces extracts that are amenable to the determination of both major and minor (trace) constituents. When minor constituents are being determined, it is especially important that precautions be taken in sample preservation, storage, and handling to avoid possible contamination of the extracts.  
5.6 This test method is a comparative method intended for use as a routine method for monitoring mine rock. It is assumed that all who use this method will be trained analysts capable of performing skillfully and safely. It is expected that work will be performed in a properly equipped laboratory under appropriate quality control practices such as those described in Guide E882.
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1.1 This test method provides a procedure for the column percolation extraction of mine rock in order to determine the potential for dissolution and mobility of certain constituents by meteoric water.  
1.2 This test method is intended to describe the procedure for performing column percolation extractions only. It does not describe all types of sampling and analytical requirements that may be associated with its application.  
1.3 The values stated in SI units are to be regarded as the standard. The values given in parentheses are provided for information only and are not considered standard.  
1.4 This standard does not purport to address all of the safety concerns, if any, associated with its use. It is the responsibility of the user of this standard to establish appropriate safety, health, and environmental practices and determine the applicability of regulatory limitations prior to use.  
1.5 This international standard was developed in accordance with internationally recognized principles on standardization established in the Decision on Principles for the Development of International Standards, Guides and Recommendations issued by the World Trade Organization Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT) Committee.

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SIGNIFICANCE AND USE
5.1 This practice is primarily intended to be used for the correction of silver loss in the fire assay process. Silver assays are determined by fire assay for the purpose of metallurgical exchange between seller and buyer.  
5.2 It is assumed that all who use this practice will be trained analysts capable of performing skillfully and safely. It is expected that work will be performed in a properly equipped laboratory under appropriate quality control practices such as those described in Guide E882.
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1.1 This practice covers the determination of fire assay correction for silver, utilizing proof silver, ores, concentrates, and related metallurgical materials.  
1.2 The values stated in SI units are to be regarded as standard. No other units of measurement are included in this standard.  
1.3 This standard does not purport to address all of the safety concerns, if any, associated with its use. It is the responsibility of the user of this standard to establish appropriate safety, health, and environmental practices and determine the applicability of regulatory limitations prior to use. (See Test Methods E1335, Practices E50, Guide E882, and ISO Guide 35: 2017.)  
1.4 This international standard was developed in accordance with internationally recognized principles on standardization established in the Decision on Principles for the Development of International Standards, Guides and Recommendations issued by the World Trade Organization Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT) Committee.

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SIGNIFICANCE AND USE
4.1 These practices are primarily intended to test materials for compliance with compositional specifications and for monitoring. Partial extraction of ores and related metallurgical materials can provide information on the availability of elements to leaching, water quality changes, or other site conditions.  
4.2 It is assumed that the users of these practices will be trained analysts capable of performing common laboratory procedures skillfully and safely. It is expected that work will be performed in a properly equipped laboratory and that proper waste disposal procedures will be followed. Appropriate quality control practices such as those described in Guide E882 shall be followed.
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1.1 These practices cover the digestion of ores and related metallurgical materials, such as mine soil, waste rock and tailings, for subsequent determination of acid-extractable contents of certain elements by such solution analytical techniques as atomic absorption spectrometry (AAS), inductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectrometry (ICP-AES) (see Test Method D1976), and inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) (see Test Method D5673).  
1.1.1 Contents of aluminum, antimony, arsenic, barium, beryllium, bismuth, boron, cadmium, calcium, chromium, cobalt, copper, gallium, iron, lead, lithium, magnesium, manganese, mercury, molybdenum, nickel, phosphorus, potassium, scandium, selenium, silver, sodium, strontium, thallium, tin, titanium, vanadium and zinc can be extracted from ores and related metallurgical materials for determination by analytical methods for elements in solution. Other elements may be determined from extracts produced using this practice.  
1.1.2 Actual element quantification in digested solutions can be accomplished by following the various test methods under other appropriate ASTM standards for element(s) of interest in solution.  
1.1.3 The detection limit and linear content range for each element is dependent on the atomic absorption, mass spectrometry or emission spectrometric technique employed and may be found in the manual accompanying the instrument used or ASTM standard method for analysis of the solutions. Consider the dilution factor in content calculations due to digestion and dilution of solid samples.  
1.1.4 The extent of extraction of elements from ores and related metallurgical materials by these practices is dependent upon the physical and mineralogical characteristics of the prepared sample and the digestion practice used.  
1.2 The digestion practices appear in the following order:    
Sections  
Nitric Acid Microwave Digestion  
7 to 14  
Four-Acid Total Digestion  
15 to 21  
1.3 The values stated SI units are to be regarded as the standard. No other units of measurements are included in this standard.  
1.4 This standard does not purport to address all of the safety concerns, if any, associated with its use. It is the responsibility of the user of this standard to establish appropriate safety, health, and environmental practices and determine the applicability of regulatory limitations prior to use. For specific hazard statements, see Sections 11 and 20.  
1.5 This international standard was developed in accordance with internationally recognized principles on standardization established in the Decision on Principles for the Development of International Standards, Guides and Recommendations issued by the World Trade Organization Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT) Committee.

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