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Minerals

Gold today. The same model for what comes next.

BYM develops mineral concessions with the cooperatives that hold them. Today that is gold, in Tshopo and North Kivu. This page sets out what we mine now, and the conditions any other mineral would have to meet before we touch it.

Two gold dore bars on a precision scale reading 1196.38 grams
Production batchApril 2026

01In production

Gold.

Alluvial and laterite gold worked semi-industrially, recovered by gravity and weighed batch by batch. Two photographed sites and a portfolio of four permit areas.
Status
In production
Where
Tshopo and North Kivu provinces; concession portfolio P1–P4
Mining method
Hydraulic open-cut and mechanised excavation of alluvial and laterite deposits
Recovery
Gravity separation — sluices, with mobile screening where the ground requires it
Product
Doré bars, weighed on a precision balance and recorded batch by batch
Operating basis
Licensed local cooperatives holding the exploitation permits
Workers standing on and beside a wooden sluice box as muddy water runs through it
BavidiliBafwasende Territory · Tshopo Province
Weighed batch
1,196.38 g
Mettler Toledo precision balance · April 2026

02Beyond gold

Five conditions before any other mineral.

The partnership model does not depend on the metal. What it depends on is a licence, a workable deposit, a legitimate buyer and conditions we can stand behind. These are the tests.
  1. 01

    A partner who holds the permit

    The concession is held by a licensed cooperative, association or permit holder who wants a partner, not a buyer of their licence.

  2. 02

    A deposit that semi-industrial methods can work

    Alluvial, eluvial or near-surface mineralisation that excavators, pumps and gravity or simple physical separation can handle without a processing plant.

  3. 03

    A legitimate route to market

    An identified buyer or trader operating within DRC export rules and international traceability requirements for the mineral in question.

  4. 04

    Due-diligence conditions met

    No armed-group involvement, no child or forced labour, a traceable chain of custody — the OECD conditions that apply to every mineral from the region, not only gold.

  5. 05

    A manageable footprint

    Water, sediment, waste and rehabilitation that the site team can control with the practices used on our gold sites.

03The region

What the ground holds, and what we do not claim.

The provinces where BYM works — Tshopo, North Kivu and Ituri — also host tin, tantalum and tungsten ores and other minerals worked by artisanal miners. BYM has no activity in any of them today. Any step towards another mineral would follow the criteria above and would be announced only once a permit and a partner exist.

How the model worksDue diligence and conduct
Three excavators working on a steep red-earth bench under a clear sky
BeniBeni Territory · North Kivu Province

Concession holders

Hold a permit for something other than gold?

If your cooperative or association holds a concession for another mineral and wants a partner that works the way we do, we want to hear about it. The conditions above apply from the first conversation.

No announcement is implied

BYM announces a new mineral or concession only once a permit is in a partner’s hands and an agreement is signed — never before.