Nature Positive Mining, Proved.
Baseline-to-closure biodiversity evidence for ICMM, IFC PS6, Copper Mark, LME Responsible Sourcing, and TSM.
Built to comply with a lender's diligence team, a certifier's field audit, a regulator's inspection, or a court's request for evidence — not just the year of the audit.
Two gates, one record.
New Projects & Expansions
Where the project is financed externally, IFC PS6 makes this mandatory at every round; where it isn't, the same record still protects the permit and the social license. Net Gain, not just No Net Loss, when the screening lands the site in critical habitat.
Operating Mines
ICMM, Copper Mark, LME Responsible Sourcing, and TSM require a baseline held from first disclosure through mine closure, not a survey taken once and cited for years.
Rigorous enough for the audit. Built to last the life of the mine.
Companies pursuing ICMM, Copper Mark, PS6, LME Responsible Sourcing, or TSM commitments usually already have a piece of this in place. None of those cover the years between audits, when the record still has to hold up against a lender's diligence team, a buyer's sourcing questionnaire, a regulator's inspection, or an NGO's filing in court. Not covering that gap costs far more than closing it, and at mining timescales, the gap is measured in decades.
Gap-first
We map what's already in place, baseline, targets, last audit, and build only what's missing — or the full record when needed.
Built at the site
Our team operates where the concession and its surrounding landscape actually are, across Latin America. That keeps cost proportionate to the operation.
Built to be reused
The same baseline and monitoring record can support ICMM, Copper Mark, IFC PS6, LME Responsible Sourcing, and TSM at once. One field dataset, not five.
Portfolio scale
The system that verifies one site scales to a full portfolio, each site reviewed by the same curated scientist network, not a dashboard running alone.
Rigorous by design
Independent reviews of these schemes have documented real gaps in the field data behind them. Ours is built so that when the data doesn't hold up, the system stops and asks. It doesn't guess.
The methodology compounds, your data doesn't
Your baseline stays yours. Every audit cycle starts from your own established record, not from zero, and the case gets stronger each year, not thinner.
Scientists on the loop
Fed by the mix of satellite imagery, environmental DNA, camera-trap, and bioacoustic data the site calls for. A named scientist, not just a dashboard, stays on the loop for the mitigation-hierarchy calls the data alone can't make.
Discovery first. Then exactly what's missing, and what it takes to hold it.
Every engagement starts as a Discovery, the same structured diagnostic behind every KEA program: what baseline, targets, and certifications already exist, what each relevant framework still requires, and what it costs to close the gap.
Discovery
Maps existing baseline, targets, and certification status against ICMM, Copper Mark, IFC PS6, LME, and TSM requirements, sequenced by what's most urgent: a financing round, an upcoming audit cycle, or a disclosure deadline.
Implementation
Builds the missing pieces identified in Discovery, at the pace and scope the operation actually needs.
Ongoing
Keeps the record current for the life of the mine. A renewed audit cycle, a new expansion, or a financing round doesn't start the case over — it adds to it.
The system behind every record.
Every site mapped and every baseline set runs through the same AI-enabled platform, accelerated by agentic AI and anchored by a curated network of scientists and practitioners.
The record doesn't close when it ships. A new expansion, a renewed audit cycle, or a financing round re-enters at whichever step changed, not at step one.
Starting where the evidence actually is.
KEA's field network is curated, not assembled ad hoc for each engagement. Senior biodiversity professionals onboarded onto the platform. Local service providers for eDNA, camera trap, and bioacoustic data collection at the site and across its surrounding landscape.
The network started in Latin America, home to some of the world's largest copper, lithium, and iron operations, and the same region where ICMM, Copper Mark, IFC PS6, LME, and TSM's toughest field requirements converge.
The record you build at baseline becomes the foundation every future audit, financing round, and legal challenge depends on.