The future low-carbon global economy increases the demand for critical raw materials historically extracted from the Global South, leading to high human, social, and environmental costs. Existing technical research tends to focus on providing insights into the market and governmental actors whose economic progress depends on making those resources sustainable (European Commission, 2023). However, these solutions designed for the Global North do not respond to the interests, values, and knowledges of those assuming extractive burdens in the mining sites in the Global South.