AFRICA GOLD’s Operations Across Four Key Regions

AFRICA GOLD’s Operations Across Four Key Regions

AFRICA GOLD maintains integrated operations across four strategic locations—South Africa, Ghana, South Sudan, and the United Kingdom—each fulfilling distinct functions within the company’s supply chain. This geographic structure enables direct source verification, regulatory navigation, and coordinated delivery to international refineries without dependency on unverified intermediaries.

South Africa: Headquarters and Operational Hub

Founded in Johannesburg in 2015, AFRICA GOLD’s South African headquarters serves as the central coordination point for pan-African operations. The location provides access to South Africa’s mature regulatory infrastructure—SABS-accredited laboratories, SADPMR permit processing, and OR Tambo International Airport’s established precious metals handling facilities.

Field teams source from licensed small-scale cooperatives in Gauteng and North West provinces while maintaining direct relationships with assay laboratories and customs officials. This embedded presence enables efficient execution on the Johannesburg-Shanghai and Johannesburg-Mumbai corridors serving Asian refineries.

Image: Logistics coordination at OR Tambo International Airport cargo facility

Ghana: Multi-Region Field Presence

AFRICA GOLD operates field teams across Ghana’s three gold-producing regions—Ashanti, Western North, and Eastern—maintaining secure collection points near major mining zones. Officers conduct on-site verification of Minerals Commission licenses before acquisition, record GPS coordinates, and seal material in tamper-evident containers.

Material moves directly to PMMC-approved laboratories in Accra and Kumasi with field coordinators present during fire assay testing to prevent sample substitution. The company has navigated PMMC’s evolving digital permit system since its implementation, maintaining shipment continuity through regulatory transitions that disrupted less established operators.

Image: Field officer verifying miner license at Western North Ghana collection point

South Sudan: Equatoria Field Operations

In South Sudan, field teams operate in Central and Eastern Equatoria regions, sourcing exclusively from Ministry of Mining-licensed artisanal miners near Torit and Kapoeta. Mobile verification units equipped with satellite connectivity record GPS-tagged acquisition data in real time—critical given regional infrastructure constraints.

The company coordinates assay certification through partnerships with Dubai-linked accredited laboratories and maintains representatives at Juba International Airport during dual ministry permit inspections. This hands-on approach has enabled consistent execution on the Juba-Dubai corridor despite the jurisdiction’s developing regulatory framework.

United Kingdom: European Coordination and Regulatory Intelligence

The London office provides coordination support for European client relationships and monitors regulatory developments affecting EU-bound shipments. This includes tracking implementation of the EU Conflict Minerals Regulation and ensuring documentation packages meet evolving due diligence requirements for Swiss and German refineries.

The UK presence facilitates communication across time zones and supports financial settlement oversight while maintaining alignment with on-ground verification conducted in African producing regions. It functions as a regulatory intelligence hub rather than a sourcing point—ensuring destination requirements inform origin-side documentation protocols.

Integrated Execution Across Regions

These four operational nodes function as an integrated system:

• South African headquarters manages financial settlement and pan-African logistics coordination
• Ghana and South Sudan field teams execute source verification and initial documentation
• UK office ensures destination-market compliance alignment
• All regions maintain uniform chain of custody standards regardless of origin

This structure enables buyers to access multi-jurisdictional supply through a single partner while receiving consistent documentation quality—eliminating the need to evaluate separate compliance protocols for each producing country.

AFRICA GOLD’s four-region operational structure transforms geographic complexity into execution reliability. Permanent presence at source, regulatory expertise at headquarters, and destination-market intelligence in London create a cohesive supply chain delivering documented gold to refineries across the UAE, United States, China, and Europe.

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