Three workers walking through a well-kept open-pit mine in morning light

The mines

More from
the same ground

Measured in output

A mine gives what its equipment and its method let it give. Better tools and a better method, and the same ground yields more. That is where we put our effort.

Equipment

The right
machines

We bring equipment suited to the ground and to the size of the mine, and we help keep it running.

A new wash plant working at a tidy site, two workers beside it

Equipment

The right
machines

No two mines are alike. Hard rock and river gravel call for different machines, and a small site calls for different ones than a large one.

So we look at the ground, and at how the mine is worked today, before anything is chosen.

A machine is only useful while it runs. Keeping it running means maintenance, parts, and people at the mine who are trained to repair it.

Know-how

Method
that travels

How ore is dug, moved, crushed and washed decides how much gold is recovered. We share what works, on site, with the people doing it.

Gloved hands holding a gold pan in sunlit water, gold at its edge

Know-how

Method
that travels

Some gold is always left behind: in the ore, or washed out with the waste. Good method keeps more of it.

How finely the ore is crushed, how the water runs, how the gold is caught: each one changes how much is recovered.

The miners know their ground. We bring method. The two are put together at the mine, and the weight of gold at the end shows what works.

Hands on

Our own people
on site

We do not advise from a distance. Our people work beside the miners, artisanal and formal, until it shows in the output.

People and safety
Two miners beside a sluice with clear water running

Hands on

Our own people
on site

Artisanal miners work by hand or with small machines, often in groups. Formal mines are run by companies with larger equipment. We work with both.

The work differs from one to the other. The aim is the same: more gold recovered from the ore that is dug.

We measure the result the way the trade is measured: by weight.

On site

From ground
to gram

Three workers walking through a well-kept open-pit mine in morning light

Dig

Reaching the ore that carries the gold.

A new wash plant working at a tidy site, two workers beside it

Move

Getting it to where it can be worked.

Gloved hands holding a gold pan in sunlit water, gold at its edge

Recover

Parting gold from rock, and losing less of it.

A rough bar of gold from a mine set on a scale

Weigh

Counting the result, in the open.

The mines

When a mine yields more, everyone standing on it gains.

The community