← Back to portfolio

Resource Extraction

Mining

Alluvial gold

A 50 square-kilometre alluvial gold concession in the Central African Republic, operated to strict regulatory and community standards.

50 km²
Concession area
100%
Operating control
Full
Regulatory alignment

Resource Extraction

Mining is our newest and most carefully governed activity. We hold operating title over a 50 square-kilometre alluvial gold concession and treat regulatory compliance, traceability and community protection as preconditions of production rather than reporting obligations.

Operations & assets

  • An artisanal miner panning river gravels for alluvial gold

    Alluvial Gold Concession

    Operating title and management control over a 50 square-kilometre alluvial gold concession in the Central African Republic, run from our office in Bangui.

  • The centre of Bangui, Central African Republic, beside the Oubangui river

    Responsible Extraction

    Operations run in strict alignment with regional regulatory mandates, with community protection and site rehabilitation built into the mine plan.

Sector highlights

Location
Central African Republic
Concession Scale
50 square kilometres
Method
Alluvial extraction

In focus

A miner crouched in a river panning gravels for alluvial gold, working without mercury
Alluvial gold is won from river gravels rather than hard rock — panning and sluicing, not pit and shaft.
A rough alluvial gold nugget
Alluvial gold in its recovered form — rounded and water-worn, not crushed from ore.
The city centre of Bangui beside the Oubangui river
Bangui — the office from which the concession is administered.