Kenyan gold, from the mine site to a licensed buyer.
AfriMineX helps Kenya's artisanal mining groups sell their gold through licensed dealers, with the paperwork done properly. A licensed assayer tests every lot, and each licence, certificate, warrant and permit carries a State Department for Mining number that anyone can check.
Too much of Kenya's gold leaves the site without a paper trail.
A group sells a few grams at the gate and never learns what the gold was really worth. A buyer pays a fair price and still cannot prove where it came from. The Department loses the royalty, and with it the records it needs to protect miners. We give each lot one record, from the assay certificate to the export permit, that the group, the buyer and the State Department for Mining all work from.
How a sale works today
Register
Your group registers with its mining permit. We check the permit with the issuing county before we approve you.
Declare
Record each batch: where it was mined, when, and roughly how much it weighs.
Test
A licensed assayer weighs and tests the gold and issues a numbered assay certificate.
Warrant
The State Department for Mining issues a warrant for the assayed lot, naming its owner of record.
Sell
Appoint a licensed buyer as your agent. Selling on the exchange, with offers from several buyers, opens with the pilot.
Export
The buyer files the export, pays the 3% royalty at the Department's cash office and receives the export permit and certificate of origin.
What the X stands for
Exchange
A market with one reference price, tied to the world gold price, and buyers who all hold a mineral dealer's licence. Listings, offers and escrow come next.
Reference price. Licensed buyers. Assayed lots.
Ecosystem
Groups, assayers, buyers and the Department work from the same record, from the first batch declaration to the export permit.
Mining groups. Assayers. Buyers. The Department.
eXcellence
Records you can check instead of taking anyone's word for it. Every document has a registry number with a check digit and a QR code.
Registry numbers. Public checks. OECD due diligence.
Who AfriMineX is for
For mining groups
Sell your gold with the paperwork in order.
Register with your mining permit, declare each batch and have it tested by a licensed assayer. Your price follows the fine gold in the assay and the world gold price, and you can show where every lot came from.
How selling worksFor licensed buyers
Assayed gold you can export.
Each lot comes with a numbered assay certificate and a Department warrant, and the group's permit has already been checked. You file the export as exporter of record, and the permit is issued once the 3% royalty is paid.
How buying worksFor processors and refiners
Get licensed and ready for documented lots.
Apply for your facility licence from the State Department for Mining through us. Refining and processing jobs for lots on the platform are coming, and each lot will arrive with its assay certificate.
For processors and refinersFor government and institutions
Every export on the record.
The Department licenses dealers and assayers, issues warrants and export permits and collects royalty on its own portal. Anyone, in Kenya or abroad, can check a document it has numbered.
For institutionsCheck a document
Type the number from a licence, assay certificate, warrant, export permit or certificate of origin, or scan its QR code. You will see straight away whether it is genuine and still valid. You do not need an account.
Check a documentWhy you can rely on it
Checked accounts
We check every group's mining permit with the issuing county, and every buyer's dealer licence against the Department's register, before the account opens.
One batch ID per lot
A lot keeps the same batch ID on every document, so you can trace it back to the site and the group that mined it.
Documents anyone can check
Every number ends in a check digit and every document has a QR code. Check them on our verification page, with no account needed.
Royalty before export
The Department assesses the 3% royalty against the exporter, and the export permit is issued only after it is paid.
Payouts to your own number
Members will withdraw to their own verified M-Pesa number, confirmed with a one-time code. M-Pesa payouts start with the pilot.
Responsible sourcing
Our lot records are built to support the OECD Due Diligence Guidance and the ICGLR regional certification rules.
Licences, permits and royalty
The State Department for Mining handles licensing, warrants, export permits and royalty on its own portal. You open and verify your account here first. Applications then go to the Department, and every document it issues carries a registry number anyone can check.
We are starting in Kenya, with gold.
Go to the Department's portalWhy we built AfriMineX
Much of Kenya's gold is mined by small groups, and too often it is sold informally, below its value and with no record of where it came from. We do not think the answer is another warehouse or another middleman. It is a record that miners, buyers and the Department can all trust, built one documented sale at a time.
AfriMineX is in its pilot phase in Kenya. Some of what this site describes is still being rolled out, and we say so where that is the case. What you can do on the platform depends on your role and your licence, and every account is checked before it is approved.