An origin record should answer a narrow question: what origin evidence was uploaded, who issued it, what lithium material it covers, and how the verifier can inspect the file. 1 2
This spoke belongs to the Lithium Provenance Due Diligence pillar at /lithium-provenance-due-diligence/.
Origin is a bounded claim
Lithium origin can refer to country, site, project, processor, batch, shipment, or recycled source. A record page should not blur those categories. If a customer uploads a country-of-origin statement, the page should not rewrite it as mine-level proof. If a file covers a period average, the page should not imply shipment-level traceability. Boundary discipline is the difference between evidence and marketing.
Minimum record fields
A practical origin record should include issuer name, document date, material form, declared origin, covered period or batch, customer upload date, hash, permanent URL, and limitation note. The limitation note should say that Lithium Record stores the document and hash but does not independently verify the origin claim.
Linking out of the origin page
The origin page should link back to the provenance pillar and sideways to chain-of-custody, OECD due-diligence, and critical-raw-material resilience pages. That lets a reviewer move from the basic origin statement into stronger supply-chain context.