Gold exploration & mining · Equatorial Guinea
Building a leading gold producer in West Africa.
Golden Ceiba proves its ground before it builds, recovers gold without mercury, documents every gram to the standard international refiners audit against — and commits to the region for the long term.
- Company
- Gold exploration & mining. In incorporation; on the ground from October 2026.
- Method
- Authorised sampling first. Proof before plant, at every step.
- Recovery
- Gravity only. Mercury-free and cyanide-free.
- Standard
- OECD Due Diligence Guidance. Refiner-grade chain of custody.
- Presence
- Berlin · on the ground in Equatorial Guinea from October 2026.
Our mission
A leading gold producer — built the way that lasts.
Golden Ceiba proves its ground before it builds, and produces gold any refiner can legally buy.
We prove ground with authorised sampling before a single machine is ordered. We recover gold by gravity alone — no mercury, no cyanide. We keep a paper trail a refiner can audit from the first gram. And we hire, train and pay local crews properly, because we intend to be working in the same places in ten years. Done that way, gold mining is a business a host government, a refiner and a community can grow with.
The method
Sample. Prove. Build. Scale.
Every commitment of capital is unlocked by a measurement, not a forecast.
Sample
Authorised ground access, gridded pitting, and a mobile bulk-sampling unit that processes every pit’s gravel.
Prove
An agreed average grade over a defined volume is the go/no-go gate. Decisions are made on data, not optimism.
Build
Wash plant and earthmoving fleet ordered only after the gate passes. Local crew hired and trained.
Scale
Success unlocks further capital. Operating cash flow is reinvested on the ground — growing the operation, developing adjacent proven ground, and deepening our commitment to the host country — with the same discipline each time.
Commitments
Everything we do has to survive a refiner’s audit.
- Authorization before ground work — ministry-level, in writing, always.
- Mercury-free and cyanide-free recovery — gravity only, as a design constraint.
- Documented from the first gram — assay records, origin certification, royalty receipts, transport papers.
- Chain of custody to refiner standard — built to the standard LBMA refiners audit.
- OECD Due Diligence Guidance as the working standard.
- Local hiring, training and host-community works as a matter of course.
- No facilitation payments — anywhere in the chain.
The ambition
A gold producer that leads by being the one anyone can check.
We are building toward a growing portfolio of proven, documented, mercury-free operations in Equatorial Guinea and Central Africa — each one paid for by the last, each one run by people on the ground, and each one open to scrutiny by any ministry, bank or partner that cares to look. That is what long-term commitment to a country looks like in practice: skills that stay, records that hold, and an operator that is still there years later.
Leadership
Named people, accountable by name.
Morris Neiland
Chief Executive Officer
Leads the venture and the commercial and government-facing side. On the ground in Equatorial Guinea from October 2026.
Patrick Koltermann
Chief Operating Officer
Runs the ground program, the crew and logistics. On the ground in Equatorial Guinea from October 2026.
Liam Neiland
Chief Financial Officer
Runs finance, payment discipline and the documentation trail behind it.
Status & contact
In preparation. On the ground from October 2026.
- Company — in incorporation, on the ground from October 2026
- Field presence — Equatorial Guinea, from October 2026
- Sampling programme — after authorisation, planned for Q1 2027