Thousands of Ghanaian artisanal miners use mercury and cyanide because they have no other way to feed their families. We give them a better one.
Your donation trains 1,000 miners in simple, mercury-free and cyanide-free gravity methods, builds two fully equipped regional processing centres, and connects their gold directly to responsible jewellers in the UK and Europe who pay a 15–30% premium for certified Clean Origin gold.
Every gram of Clean Origin gold sold does three things at once:
- Pays the miners a fair, living wage
- Funds health insurance, school fees and prenatal care for their families
- Restores one square metre of poisoned farmland or riverbank
In Year 1 we will bring 1,000 miners into the programme and sell at least 50 kg of certified gold – generating lasting income while removing toxins forever.
We need £750,000 to make this happen now.
This covers training, equipment (gravity concentrators, borax kits, shared crushers), independent audits, and the first revolving fund so cooperatives never have to borrow from mercury dealers again.