Taggant for cement authentication

A traceable cement mixture, comprising:

• a volume of cementitious material;
• a first taggant disposed within the volume of cementitious material, the first taggant including data relating to a first characteristic of the volume of cementitious material;
• and
• a second taggant disposed within the volume of cementitious material, the second taggant including data relating to a second characteristic of the volume of cementitious material different than the first characteristic, wherein the first taggant includes data that is different than the data of the second taggant.

A traceable cement mixture, comprising:

• a volume of cementitious material;
• and
• a taggant disposed within the volume of cementitious material, the taggant including data relating to a characteristic of the volume of cementitious material,
• wherein the characteristic includes a number density of taggants within the volume of cementitious material, the number density of taggants specified based on a quality of the cementitious material.