Next to the industrialized countries now rising economies such as India and China import more and more mineral commodities, which causes an immense increase of its prices. And obviously the largescale miningcompanies experience an increase of the profits. The (Southern) countries where most of the mining corporating are located hardly profit from thes increasing prices, taxes are still low and most of the ores are not being processed locally.

Local communities and nature in the meanwhile have to make a way for the large mining corporations who often pollute the water and air in the wide environment seriously. The miningemployees work under hard and dangerous circumstances, often for low wages and bad conditions. HIV and other infectious diseases spreak out fast in the miningemployeehuttings. And the mining of mineral commodities often is a source for conflicts and corruption.

Profundo analyses which companies in which way are active within the different mineral commodity chains, unravels commercial chains and researches how miningcorporations are financed. Profundo consults social organizations to find new strategic possibilities to improve the contribution of the mining sector to the sustainable production: more employment possibilities and added value, better employment circumstances and wages, less social conflicts and environmental pollution. Besides Profundo analyses which legal and political instruments can be used for this.