The Mining, Minerals, and Metals Partnership (M3 Partnership) is a collaboration of the Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance (IRMA), Responsible Jewellery Council (RJC), ResponsibleSteel, and Towards Sustainable Mining (TSM). The M3 Partnership, made possible by the ISEAL Innovations Fund with support by the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs, aims to identify opportunities for alignment and collective action to drive improvement in social and environmental performance.

A focal point of the M3 Partnership has been creation and testing of an Integrated Assessment Protocol (IAP) tool, designed to allow mine sites to be assessed against multiple site-level standards in a single audit. The M3 Partnership undertook two pilots with mining companies to test and improve the IAP tool. This document provides a summary of these pilots, case studies and lessons learned, and next steps.