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Responsible sourcing is the boring part of the business. We are unusually proud of it.

No buzzwords. A short, plain-language summary of what we actually do — and what we deliberately do not do.

Reclaimed mining site with new vegetation

Sourcing

We only contract sites our geologists have walked.

We do not buy doré or concentrate sight-unseen from intermediaries. Every host operator we partner with has been visited by one of our two staff geologists, has signed our supplier code of conduct, and is on a Net-7 payment cadence — which in practical terms means we cannot afford to look away from how the metal is produced.

Our supplier code is aligned with the OECD Due Diligence Guidance for Responsible Supply Chains of Minerals from Conflict-Affected and High-Risk Areas (2016, 3rd ed.) and is reviewed annually. The current version is available on request.

Environmental practice

Five things we hold ourselves to, on every site.

No cyanide heap-leach.

Our contract sites use gravity and flotation separation. We have walked away from two tenders that required cyanide leaching.

Water balance reporting.

Each site submits a monthly water-in / water-out balance. Numbers are shared with the host community on request.

Active reclamation.

Reclamation begins in year one, not at end-of-life. Two of our three sites have a higher post-mining vegetation index than pre-mining.

Tailings dam classification.

Zero high-risk tailings dams. We use dry-stack or paste deposition on all three current sites.

Independent audit.

An external environmental audit is commissioned every two years and the findings are published unedited inside our company.

Community benefit.

1.5 % of contract-site revenue is allocated to a community fund at each site, jointly governed with the host municipality.

What we deliberately don’t do

A short list of refusals.

We are private precisely because there is no quarterly pressure to bend on the items below.

No ASM-only doré from non-audited cooperatives
No material from CAHRA-listed regions, full stop
No cyanide heap-leach, on any current or future site
No mercury-amalgam recovery, on any current or future site
No supplier audits we cannot publish in full to the customer
No retail bullion business — wholesale only