Mineral dressing and
trading centre

Due to close and persistent contact with miners and mining companies, we are able to secure a constant and stable mineral supply.

About us

Since the region we operate at is relatively poor, active development and growth in the sector, especially what concerns the miners group, undoubtedly lead to persistent economic benefit for both workers and consumers. 
At the moment, our main focal business point is in Nigeria. As the existing establishment in Jos, the new operating countries‘ people benefit from their natural local resources.

MINING OVERVIEW

Mining in Nigeria has great amounts of unexploited opportunities to offer in regards to ore processing and diversification: being the main mineral exporter from Nigeria ores are processed to extract tin, titanium and tungsten. Mining is the second largest export sector in Nigeria‘s economy. In 2014 approximately $210,6 million of foreign exchange was generated from mining only. All mineral exports from Nigeria can be traced through a special tagging system accepted by the downstream mineral buyers. Systematic exploration work is being carried out to identify and define more mineral deposits. Seeking to build a stable and fully-functioning sector, a strong, investor friendly, legal and policy framework has been implemented.

MINERAL TRANSPARENCY INITIATIVES IN NIGERIA

The Nigerian government implemented an anti-smuggling regulation for the mineral sector

The RCM forms part of the ICGLR Regional Initiative on Natural Resources, adopted by the heads of state.

CORPORATE GOVERNANCE

Five main rules for the best corporate governance practice:

Ethics: a successful business must have a clear ethical basis.

Align Business Goals: setting clearly determined, ambitiuous yet objectively reachable goals, achievable through building a 
suitable stakeholder decision making model.

Strategic Management: creating an effective strategy process incorporating stakeholder value.

Organization: having a well-structured and suitable work organization leading to a successful corporate governance.

Reporting: establishing report systems structured to ensure transparency and accountability.

ETHICAL PRINCIPLES

Upholding human dignity and valuing it above all with no exceptions.

Never justifying the oppression of minorities of any form, in any situation in daily operations.

Condemning corruption and never involving our company into any corrupted activities.

Always protecting human life in all forms.

Basing our business operations on the fundamental goal of improving the economy of Nigeria as well as the welfare 
of its people.

Knowingly never take part in any business with persons or groups of people involved in acts of violence.

Knowingly never conducting any business with persons or groups of people purchasing minerals from rebel or armed groups.

Ensuring that all of our suppliers acknowledge their acceptance that they adhere to these ethical principles by signing the corresponding documents.

Through continuous effort apply and improve these Ethical Fundamentals, making accasional inquiries, requesting documentation and investigating (directly or through intermediaries) which investigations shall be allowed by clients, suppliers and contractors involved in our business.

Issuing a copy of the translated OECD Due Dilligence Guidance for Responsible Supply Chains of Minerals from Conflict-Affected and High-Risk Areas to all of our suppliers, committing them to adhering to this documents‘ requirements, fully supported and upheld by our company.

Services

SOURCING

Due to close and persistent contact with miners and mining companies, our company is able to ensure a constant and stable mineral supply.
In order to ensure quality and good business relationships, we pay a pre-established deposit amount to the suppliers upfront before we carry out our in-house processing, testing and analysis. In many cases, we put together minerals from various suppliers as one lot.

TESTING &
ANALYSIS

We use a special Spectrum Analyzer to produce an Analysis Certificate providing the following information:
the type of material received, the number of bags and their weight and wether the material has been mixed or milled.
The Lab Test gives the breakdown of various elements in the sample and the Bq Radiation (the Becquerel (symbol Bq) is the Sl derived unit of radioactivity). One Becquerel is defined as the activity of a quantity of radioactive material in which one nucleus decays per second. This is to ensure that the radiation in the material is within the allowed and safe limits.

CRUSHING

Each material is crushed in our crushing machines until it reaches the consistency of powder.
Magnetic separators are also used to separate mixed materials into iron, Tin or Tantalum, discarding the iron and storing the tin and tantalum. All materials are regularly weighed at different stages of the process.

LOADING &
SHIPPING

The steel drums or jumbo bags are loaded into 40 foot Containers and leave for agreed destination.
The containers are loaded and sent to their final destination.

Products

LITHIUM

Mineral: Spodumene.
Radioactivity: Class 7.
Moisture: 0.5% max.
Granulometry: 10-100mm.
Packaging: Jumbo bags.

Spodumene is a pyroxene mineral which is a source of lithium. It occurs as colorless to yellowish, purplish, or lilac kunzite (see below), yellowish-green or emerald-green hiddenite, prismatic crystals, often of great size. Spodumene occurs in lithium-rich granite pegmatites and aplites.

It is used in batteries, making lithium soap (it is used for high-temperature all-purpose lubricating greases), in metallurgy (increases melting metal fluidity, reduces veining, reduces melting temperature, increases electrical resistance, for welding – promotes fusing of metals, used with aluminum, cadmium, copper and manganese – makes high-performance and low density aircraft parts), pyrotechnic colorants, air purification, optics, organic and polymer chemistry, military (high energy additives for rocket propellants), nuclear applications and medicine (treating bipolar, schizoaffective disorders, major depression and cluster headaches).   Lithium is extracted from these minerals: Amblygonite, Spodumene, Lepidolite.

BERYLLIUM

Mineral: Beryl.
Radioactivity: Class 7. 
Moisture: 0.5% max.
Granulometry: 5mm max.
Packaging: Jumbo bags.​

Beryl is a mineral composed of beryllium aluminum cyclosilicate. Well-known varieties of beryl include emerald and aquamarine. Pure beryl is colorless, but it is frequently tinted by impurities; possible colors are green, blue, yellow, pink, and red (the rarest). Beryl can also be black in color. It is an ore source of beryllium.

In the 13th century, the first eye glasses were constructed using lenses made out of beryl, since at the time glass could not be made clear enough. Nowadays, the varieties of beryl colors make them great, although not very valuable, gem stones.

ZINC

Mineral: Zinc ore.
Moisture: 0.0% max.
Granulometry: 10 mm.
Packaging: Jumbo bags

Zinc is a bluish-white glossy diamagnetic metal, though most common commercial grades of the metal have a dull finish. The metal is hard and brittle at most temperatures but becomes malleable between 100 and 150 °C. Zinc is a fair conductor of electricity.

Zinc makes up about 75 ppm (0.0075%) of Earth's crust, making it the 24th most abundant element.

Most common applications for Zinc are: anti-corrosion, batteries, alloys, paints, as a heat dispersing catalyst, protection from ultraviolet radiation, its’ semiconductor properties are used for varistors and photo copying products, for hydrogen production, wood preservation, organic chemistry, plays a great biological role, agriculture.

LEAD

Mineral: Lead ore
Moisture: 0.0% max.
Granulometry: 10 mm.
Packaging: Jumbo bags

Lead is a heavy metal that is denser than most common materials. Lead is soft and malleable, and also has a relatively low melting point. When freshly cut, lead is silvery with a hint of blue; it tarnishes to a dull gray color when exposed to air. In 2014, the annual global production of lead was about ten million tons, over half of which was from recycling.

The properties of lead, combined with its relative abundance and low cost, resulted in its extensive use in construction, plumbing, batteries, bullets, weights, solders, pewters, fusible alloys, white paints, leaded gasoline, and radiation shielding.

COPPER

Mineral: Copper ore
Moisture: 0.0% max.
Granulometry: 10 mm.
Packaging: Jumbo bags

It is a soft, malleable, and ductile metal with very high thermal and electrical conductivity. A freshly exposed surface of pure copper has a pinkish-orange color. Copper is used as a conductor of heat and electricity, as a building material, and as a constituent of various metal alloys, such as sterling silver used in jewelry, cupronickel used to make marine hardware and coins, and constantan used in strain gauges and thermocouples for temperature measurement.

TANTALUM

Mineral: Tantalite.
Radioactivity: Class 7.
Moisture: 0.5% max.
Granulometry: 5mm max.
Packaging: Steel drums.

Tantalum is a rare, hard, blue-gray, glossy transition metal that is highly corrosion-resistant. It is part of the refractory metals group, which are widely used as minor components in alloys.

Its main use today is in tantalum capacitors in electronic equipment such as mobile phones, DVD players, video game systems and computers. Tantalum, always together with the chemically similar niobium, occurs in the mineral groups tantalite, columbite and coltan (the latter is a mix of columbite and tantalite, though not recognized as a separate mineral species). Tantalum is considered a technology-critical element by the European Commission.

TIN

Mineral: Cassiterite.
Radioactivity: Class 7.
Moisture: 0.5% max.
Granulometry: 5mm max.
Packaging: Steel drums.​

Tin is a silvery-colored metal that characteristically has a faint yellow hue. Pure tin after solidifying presents a mirror-like appearance similar to most metals.

In modern times, tin is used in many alloys, most notably tin / lead soft solders, which are typically 60% or more tin, and in the manufacture of transparent, electrically conducting films of indium tin oxide in optoelectronic applications. Another large application is corrosion-resistant tin plating of steel. Because of the low toxicity of inorganic tin, tin-plated steel is widely used for food packaging as tin cans.

COLUMBITE

Mineral: Niobium.
Moisture: 0.0% max.
Granulometry: 5 mm.
Packaging: Jumbo bags.

Columbite has a submetallic gloss, high density and is a niobate of iron and manganese.

Columbite contains varying amounts of thorium and uranium, which makes it radioactive to various degrees.

CASSITERITE

Mineral: Cassiterite.
Radioactivity: Class 7.
Moisture: 0.5% max.
Granulometry: 5mm max.
Packaging: Steel drums.​

Cassiterite is a tin oxide mineral and is generally opaque, but it is translucent in thin crystals. Its luster and multiple crystal faces produce a desirable gem. Cassiterite is the most important source of tin today.

Physical properties of Cassiterite

Cassiterite has several properties that enable it to be found in minable quantities. Its adamantine luster, high hardness, light streak and high specific gravity are helpful in its identification. 

Most sources of cassiterite today are found in alluvial or placer deposits containing the resistant weathered grains.

TUNGSTEN

Mineral: Wolframite.
Radioactivity: Class 7.
Moisture: 0.5% max.
Granulometry: 5mm max.
Packaging: Steel drums.​

Tungsten is a rare metal found naturally on Earth almost exclusively combined with other elements in chemical compounds rather than alone.

The free element is remarkable for its robustness, especially the fact that it has the highest melting point of all the elements discovered, melting at 3422 C it also has the highest boiling point at 5930 C. Polycrystalline tungsten is an intrinsically brittle and hard material (under standard conditions, when uncombined), making it difficult to work with. 

Tungsten’s many alloys have numerous applications, including incandescent light bulb filaments, X-ray tubes (as both the filament and target), electrodes in gas tungsten arc welding, superalloys and radiation shielding. Tungsten’s hardness and high density give it military applications in penetrating projectiles. Tungsten compounds are also often used as industrial catalysts.

Policies

POLICY OF CONFORMITY

Over the years, the supply of minerals, such as Tantalum from Africa has been covered up by mass media, making most people unaware that the sector is very controlled by local and international bodies.

In spite of this situation, our companys‘ policy and ethics have always been based on the following:
„Whatever is my right as a man is also the right of another and it becomes my duty to guarantee as well as to possess“
– Thomas Paine, Rights of Man

Section 1502 of the US law known as the „Dodd-Frank Act“ includes a requirement that companies using gold, tin, tungsten and tantalum must make efforts to determine if those materials came from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) or an adjoining country and if so, to carry out a „due dilligence“ review of their supply chain to determine whether their mineral purchases are funding armed groups in Eastern DRC. The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued the final rule implementing section 1502 in August 2012. The rule requires companies to publicly report on their due diligence and to have their reports independently audited. The initial reporting period started in January 2013.

THE COMPANYS' ETHICAL PRINCIPLES

Upholding human dignity and valuing it above all with no exceptions.

Never justifying the suppression of minorities of any form/in any situation in the daily business operations.

Never supporting corruption and never involving our company into any corrupted activities.

Always protecting human life in all forms.

Guilding our business operations with the fundamental goal of improving the economy of Rwanda as well as the welfare of its’ people.

Knowingly never conducting any business with persons or groups of people involved in acts of violence.

Knowingly never conducting any business with persons or groups of people purchasing minerals from rebel or armed groups.

Ensuring that all of our suppliers acknowledge their acceptance that they adhere to these ethical principles by signing the corresponding documents.

Due to a continuous effort to apply and to improve these Ethical Fundamentals, making occasional inquiries, requesting documentation and investigating (directly or through intermediaries) which investigations shall be allowed by clients, suppliers and contractors involved in our business.

Issuing a copy of the translated OECD Due Diligence Guidance for Responsible Supply Chains of Minerals from Conflict-Affected and high-risk areas to all of our suppliers, committing them to adhering to this documents’ requirements, fully supported and upheld by our company.

Committing to comply with the OECD ‘Model Supply Chain Policy’ set under Annex II of the OECD ‘Due Diligence Guidance for Responsible Global Supply Chains of Minerals from Conflict Affected and High-Risk Areas’ (the “OECD Guidance”).

Ensuring that all our current staff is employed under the current employment contract which complies with the national laws.
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