Golden CeibaIn incorporation

Responsibility

The standard is not what we promise. It is what an auditor can check.

Responsible practice in small-scale gold is mostly unglamorous and mostly procedural: how you recover metal, who you hire, what you write down, and what you refuse to pay. Here is where we stand on each, before the first program runs.

Environment

Mercury-free and cyanide-free recovery.

Recovery is gravimetric. No mercury and no cyanide are used at any point in our process — not as a preference we might revisit under pressure, but as a design constraint on the plant we will buy.

Mercury amalgamation is what makes most informal gold unsellable to international refiners and what poisons the people doing the work. Designing it out from the start costs us recovery efficiency in some material. We accept that trade.

  • Gravity recovery only; no mercury, no cyanide.
  • Pits backfilled and ground rehabilitated as the grid advances.
  • Water handled in closed circuits at the sampling unit wherever the site permits.

Governance and due diligence

OECD Due Diligence Guidance as the working standard.

  • OECD Due Diligence Guidance for responsible mineral supply chains is our working standard, applied from the first gram rather than adopted once volumes make it necessary.
  • Ministry-level authorization is in place before any ground work begins. No exploratory work is done on the assumption that paperwork will follow.
  • Chain of custody is built to what LBMA and DMCC refiners actually audit: assay records, origin certification, royalty receipts and transport documentation.
  • Zero-facilitation policy. No facilitation payments, at any level, by us or on our behalf. Everything we do has to survive a refiner’s audit — which protects our partners as much as it protects us.

People and community

Local hiring, training, and works the host community keeps.

  • Local hiring. The field crew is hired locally and employed by the locally incorporated subsidiary under local law.
  • Training. Crew are trained on the equipment they operate and on the documentation the operation depends on. Skills that stay when a program moves are the point, not a by-product.
  • Host-community works. Works agreed with the host community are part of how we operate, not a discretionary extra.
  • Health and safety. Pitting and earthmoving are the two places people get hurt in this work. Procedures and supervision are set for those first.

Golden Ceiba is in incorporation and has not yet begun field work. These are the standards the first program is being built to run under. We would rather be measured against them later than claim a record we do not have.