The Responsible Minerals Initiative’s RMAP Gold Standard has audited gold refiners since 2017. In October 2025 it became the first, and so far only, scheme recognised under the EU Conflict Minerals Regulation, and its conformant list, built with cross-recognition, covers 94 gold refiners.
Visit responsiblemineralsinitiative.orgThe Responsible Minerals Assurance Process (RMAP) is the Responsible Minerals Initiative’s audit programme for smelters and refiners. Its Gold Standard was released on 18 December 2017, with a minor revision on 7 January 2023.
On 16 October 2025 the European Commission adopted Implementing Decision (EU) 2025/2071, making RMAP the first and only due-diligence scheme recognised under the EU Conflict Minerals Regulation. The recognition’s scope matters: it covers RMAP-audited facilities only, not the refiners the RMI lists through cross-recognition.
Cross-recognition is the other half of the machine. Under the RMI-LBMA-RJC policy (first announced in 2012, OECD-realigned in 2017, v2 in September 2018), the three schemes mutually recognise gold refiner audits, exchange origin data annually and coordinate grievances. That is how a 94-refiner conformant list is built from 37 direct audits.
Counted from the live RMI database on 2 July 2026. Two listed facilities are flagged as crude-gold refiners. Only the 37 directly audited facilities fall within the EU recognition’s scope.
Cross-recognition of refiner audits with the LBMA and RJC is first announced.
The RMAP Gold Standard is released on 18 December; the cross-recognition policy is realigned to the OECD guidance.
Cross-recognition policy v2 is published in September, adding annual origin-data exchange and grievance coordination.
A minor revision of the Gold Standard is published on 7 January.
The RMI releases a facility-level ESG standard in April. On 16 October, the EU recognises RMAP under the Conflict Minerals Regulation: the first scheme, covering audited facilities only.
CMRT 6.6 is released in April.
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