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RCS Global Group

Responsible-sourcing audit and advisory firm that ran the Better Mining monitoring programme for artisanal sites from 2018 and, in August 2021, announced a technical cooperation with UNICEF on a child-rights toolkit for artisanal mining. SLR acquired it on 13 October 2022. Its seat is given two ways: a 2020 MINING.COM report calls it Berlin-based, while its joint 2020 release with the Responsible Minerals Initiative carries an Alexandria and London dateline.

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  • RCS Global GroupBetter Mining
    Historical · Evidence as of 2020-04-21 · From 2018 · Until 2022-10

    Implements

    RCS Global ran Better Mining from 2018: initial site assessments, permanent on-the-ground monitoring and monthly corrective action plans. SLR acquired RCS in October 2022, and by 2026 the programme ran as SLR Better Mining.

    3 sources
    1. RCS Global & Responsible Minerals Institute expand DRC cobalt & copper Better Mining artisanal mine monitoring program ↗

      International Mining · Published 2020-08-13 · Checked 2026-09-21

      extend Better Mining’s partnership with Huayou Cobalt, China’s largest cobalt refiner, to continue monitoring the Kasulo and Kamilombe mine sites for a further two years.

      Paragraphs 1–4: additional sites “in the Lualaba province”, “the immediate addition of a mine site near Likasi”, and “Better Mining has announced that it will be coordinating its efforts with the Fair Cobalt Alliance”.

    2. RCS Global and Responsible Minerals Initiative Partner to Support Cobalt ASM Producers ↗

      Responsible Business Alliance · Published 2020-04-21 · Checked 2026-09-21

      The RMI will provide strategic support, funding, stakeholder engagement, and advice to RMI members and cobalt refiners

      Paragraphs 2, 6–7: Better Mining “Implemented since 2018”; RCS Global “will provide critical implementation activities: initial site assessments, permanent on-the-ground monitoring, monthly risk mitigation and corrective action plan development”. Dateline “ALEXANDRIA, Va., and LONDON”.

    3. RCS Global joins SLR Group to create global ESG leader ↗

      SLR Consulting · Published 2022-10-13 · Checked 2026-09-21

      SLR has acquired RCS Global Group (“RCS”), a global leader in data driven ESG performance, responsible sourcing and responsible mining assurance and technology.

      Paragraphs 1, 3.

  • SLR ConsultingRCS Global Group
    Reported · Evidence as of 2022-10-13

    Owns

    SLR announced on 13 October 2022 that it had acquired RCS Global Group; no price is given.

    1 source
    1. RCS Global joins SLR Group to create global ESG leader ↗

      SLR Consulting · Published 2022-10-13 · Checked 2026-09-21

      SLR has acquired RCS Global Group (“RCS”), a global leader in data driven ESG performance, responsible sourcing and responsible mining assurance and technology.

      Paragraphs 1, 3.

  • United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)RCS Global Group
    Historical · Evidence as of 2021-08-30

    Partners with

    Technical cooperation announced in August 2021 to co-develop a child-rights toolkit for artisanal mining, to be trialled on at least two Better Mining sites, within UNICEF's Mitigating Child Rights Deprivations in ASM Communities Project, financed by the German government's “We Stop Child Labor” fund. It was scheduled to complete and begin international adoption by June 2022; completion is not established.

    1 source
    1. RCS Global and UNICEF announce collaboration to tackle child rights infringements in artisanal mining ↗

      UNICEF DRC · Published 2021-08-30 · Checked 2026-09-21

      The project is scheduled to complete and begin international adoption by June 2022.

      Paragraph 7. Paragraph 1: UNICEF’s Mitigating Child Rights Deprivations in ASM Communities Project, “financed by BMZ (the German Government) cooperation fund”; paragraph 4: Better Mining’s scope of “over 40 3TG ASM sites”. The date printed under the title is 30 August 2021; “23 December 2020” on the page belongs to another release in the sidebar.