South Africa produces 70% of the world's platinum. This spoke covers the PGM provenance passport for platinum, palladium, and rhodium — the critical raw materials at the heart of EU hydrogen fuel cell and catalytic converter supply chains.
South Africa's Bushveld Igneous Complex contains approximately 80% of the world's known platinum group metal (PGM) reserves. South Africa produces approximately 70% of global platinum, 35% of palladium, and 80% of rhodium. These metals are critical components of hydrogen fuel cells (platinum), automotive catalytic converters (platinum, palladium, rhodium), and industrial chemical processes. The EU's Critical Raw Materials Act (CRMA) designates PGMs as strategic raw materials, and the EU CSDDD requires EU companies to conduct due diligence on their PGM supply chains. The National DPP Registry provides the forensic infrastructure for South African PGM producers to meet these requirements.
The PGM provenance passport includes the mine shaft GPS coordinates (verified against DMRE permit), the PGM assay certificate (SHA-256 hashed), the smelter and refinery chain of custody, the carbon intensity per troy ounce of refined metal, and the ESG compliance declaration. For platinum used in hydrogen fuel cells, the passport additionally includes the hydrogen production efficiency rating and the fuel cell stack lifetime data — metrics that EU fuel cell manufacturers require to demonstrate the sustainability of their hydrogen production systems.
The EU CRMA sets targets for increasing the recycled content of critical raw materials, including PGMs. By 2030, a minimum percentage of PGMs used in EU manufacturing must come from recycled sources (catalytic converter recycling, electronic waste recovery). The National DPP Registry tracks the recycled PGM content percentage in the DPP, enabling EU manufacturers to demonstrate compliance with the CRMA recycled content targets. South African PGM refiners who process recycled catalytic converters alongside primary ore can declare a blended recycled content percentage in their DPP.
Upload your pgm traceability document to the Minting Station. The SHA-256 hash is computed client-side in your browser — the raw file never leaves your device unprotected. The hash is your forensic fingerprint: tamper-evident and legally non-repudiable under ECTA 2002.
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