Values
How
we work
Four habits run through everything AMP does. None of them is new. The work is in keeping them when it would be easier not to.
Four
habits
In the open
Weights, tests, prices and papers are shown to both sides. What cannot be shown is not traded.
In practice: the terms are written before any gold moves, the refinery’s report is shared in full, and a partner may send someone to watch the weighing and the test.
On site
We go where the gold is. Advice from a distance is cheap; we would rather carry our share of the work.
Our people travel to the mine and work there beside the miners, on the equipment and on the method. It is also how we come to know the partners and the ground we buy from.
For the long run
We choose partners and places we expect to work with for years, and act that way from the first day.
It is why we begin with a small first shipment and build towards regular trade, and why we put work into the mine and the place around it. Neither would be worth doing for a single shipment.
Said plainly
Short sentences, real numbers, and no promise we cannot keep.
A trade has to be understood the same way on both sides, often across more than one language. Plain words leave less room for misunderstanding, so we use them in agreements, reports and letters.
