Lithium provenance is no longer a procurement footnote. It is part of battery due diligence, critical raw-material resilience, responsible minerals review, and corporate sustainability evidence. Lithium Record gives teams a place to preserve uploaded provenance files, chain-of-custody statements, supplier due-diligence materials, hashes, dates, and verifier URLs without claiming to certify the mine, processor, trader, or battery product. 1 2 3 4
This is a pillar page for the Lithium compliance evidence cluster. It should act as the hub that spoke pages cite and return to.
Why provenance needs a record layer
Lithium moves through mines, brine projects, concentrators, chemical converters, traders, cathode chains, cell makers, OEM programs, and recyclers. Each handoff can create a document gap. A provenance record does not solve that gap by assertion. It names the uploaded evidence, preserves the file, assigns a hash, and states the boundary. That makes the chain reviewable instead of promotional.
Regulatory anchors
The Battery Regulation includes due-diligence obligations for economic operators placing certain batteries on the Union market. The Critical Raw Materials Act frames strategic raw materials, including lithium for batteries, as a resilience priority for the Union. The Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive adds broader human-rights and environmental due-diligence expectations for large companies and value chains. OECD mineral guidance supplies a five-step due-diligence model that can inform how evidence is organized.
Record discipline
A Lithium Record provenance page should identify material type, origin statement, supplier, custody boundary, risk review document, issue date, and related battery or customer file. It should also state that the platform did not inspect the site, perform an audit, issue an OECD assessment, or approve a supply chain. The record is a vault and handoff layer.
Spoke structure
The spokes below separate provenance into origin records, chain-of-custody files, OECD due-diligence evidence, CSDDD support, and critical-raw-material resilience notes. This gives a compliance officer a path from origin statement to broader regulatory evidence without treating a single supplier document as complete proof.