We partner with licensed artisanal and small-scale gold operators across East Africa — bringing capital and mechanized processing to increase production and recovery, while keeping ownership exactly where it belongs.
Discover Our ModelWe help licensed operators unlock the full potential of their sites through mechanized extraction and processing.
Advanced processing technology replaces manual, low-yield methods — turning gold that is currently lost into gold that is recovered.
We invest alongside local licence holders, not instead of them. Ownership stays local. Value is built together.
Not as a frontier to extract from, but as a continent whose growth, stability, and people deserve real, long-term partnership. Mithril Africa was founded on a simple conviction: that some of the world's most promising gold deposits are sitting untapped not because the potential isn't there, but because the capital and technology to unlock it responsibly have been missing.
Across East Africa, artisanal and small-scale gold mining sustains hundreds of thousands of livelihoods — yet it remains largely informal and undercapitalized. We don't see informality as a problem to displace. We see it as a foundation to build on. We are not here for a single transaction — we are building for the long term.
Better recovery means more of the gold already in the ground reaches the people who mined it.
We provide the capital and the mechanized mining and processing equipment needed to increase production and recovery. In return, we share in the results through a transparent revenue-sharing agreement. The mining licence itself always remains fully owned by our local partner — that never changes.
We work with existing licence holders — never in place of them.
We bring capital and mechanized equipment, suited to the specific site, replacing manual, low-yield methods.
Production and recovery increase. Both partners share directly in that growth.
Done right, it changes the safety, the stability, and the long-term prospects of everyone involved.
Mechanized methods replace unsafe, unsupported practices with structured, safer ways of working.
The licence, the land, the resource stay with our partners. We add to what is already theirs.
As production grows, so does local employment — directly and through the businesses that grow around it.
We measure success over years, not single transactions — building trust along the way.
We don't see formalization and mechanization as separate from community impact. We see them as the way that impact actually happens.
Whether you hold a mining licence, represent a community, or are exploring investment in responsible East African gold — we would like to hear from you.
nicolas@mithrilafrica.com