We don't shout
about gold.
We just mine it,
carefully.
One mine in northern Tanzania. 1,400 employees. We've never had a major environmental breach. That's not luck — it's a choice we make every shift.
What we actually do
Explore, not guess
We drill, sample, and model before we commit. Our exploration team holds a 67% success rate — well above the industry average.
Extract, not excavate
Underground block caving, not open pit. Less surface disturbance, less dust, less permanent damage to the landscape above.
Restore as we go
Tailings are filtered and dried. We backfill mined-out areas. Re-vegetation begins within months, not after closure.
Numbers that matter
Kizumbi underground workings, 1,200 m depth
From the ground up
"A single gold bar starts as a speck in a core sample. Here's the path it takes — honestly told."
Core samples taken from 1,200 m depth. Every assay is published.
Controlled, twice daily. Villages notified by SMS the evening before.
60-tonne trucks. Ore travels 40 km to the Kahama processing plant.
Crushed to 75 microns, leached, electrowinned, smelted at 1,200 °C.
Recent thinking
We changed our blasting method. Here's why.
After 18 months of trials, we moved from electronic to detonating cord for certain headings. Safer, but more manual — here's the trade-off.
Read more →The new water treatment plant: what it cost, what it saves
$2.4 million RO unit allows 90% water reuse. Payback period: 5 years. Daily freshwater extraction down by 67%.
Read more →Why we publish every environmental audit (even the bad ones)
Last quarter's audit found two exceedances. We fixed both in 24 hours. Transparency is the only way to build trust.
Read more →"Last quarter, our safety team flagged a near-miss with a haul truck. We shut down that section for two days. Production lost: 340 ounces. But no one got hurt. That's the trade-off we choose every time."
— Mary Nkya, Managing Director