Social Responsibility
Our Heritage and Responsibility
Our goal is to demonstrate that artisanal gold mining is technically, economically, socially, and environmentally viable.
We work closely with artisanal miners and lead programs to formalize artisanal mining.
Our foundations are strict compliance and due diligence, traceability of funds and the origin of the material.
Gold mining families (Quibdó, Chocó)
2019-2026
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INTEGRAL SOCIAL WORK
The 3rd "Women United for Colombia 2026" Convention has established itself as a key forum for meeting, learning, and networking, aimed at transforming the country's small-scale mining sector through sustainability, gender equity, and female leadership.
This event brings together women miners and leaders from diverse regions—with significant participation from communities such as Santander de Quilichao and Chocó—to share experiences, showcase their achievements, and discuss the sector's main challenges.
Strategic Partnerships
Through partnerships with the National University’s Faculty of Mines, MIT, and Naples Prime, participants gain access to practical tools and high-impact training in areas such as:
Mining formalization: Processes and tools for legalizing operations.
Financial inclusion: Access to resources and financial management for local development.
Gender-based violence: Strategies aimed at eradicating gender-based violence.
Alternative productive initiatives: Exploring new, sustainable development models.
More than just a training event, the convention serves as a gateway to a permanent national network for mutual support, continuous learning, and collective advocacy regarding decisions within the sector.
Artisanal Mining Fairs
In-person events that allow direct interaction between mining and artisanal mining communities, mining authorities, governments, territorial entities, national and international academic institutions, and private sector companies. The main topics to be covered are:
✓ Benefits of formalizing mining.
✓ Gender equality in artisanal mining.
✓ Responsible extraction techniques and good mining practices.
✓ Raising awareness of the non-use of mercury in mining practices.
✓ Banking in subsistence mining.
✓ Social enterprises and the development of inclusive and alternative economies.
✓ Current regulations for the formalization of subsistence miners.
Alternative economies to mining programs
Our programs, designed to implement alternative crops in regions where artisanal mining is practiced, aim to offer mining communities opportunities to diversify their economies and mitigate the environmental impacts of their trade.
These programs are geared toward women, single mothers, and other minority populations.
Pre-Cooperatives, Cooperatives and Associations
As a result of the hard work of our Compliance and Legal departments, we have achieved the formalization of subsistence miners organized into pre-cooperatives and associations. This allows for complete traceability in the purchase of materials at their collection points and the distribution of benefits to their communities.
II Convention of United Women Miners of Colombia
Held on April 13 and 14, 2023 in the
auditorium of the Institute for the Development of Antioquia - IDEA in partnership of Naples Prime SAS CI with the Secretariat of Mines of Antioquia, the D-LAB of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the Faculty of Mines of the National University of Colombia.
The event was attended by 148 women from 17 municipalities in the departments of Antioquia,
Bolívar, Cauca and Chocó, who received training, conferences and shared their
gender issues, access to materials and environmental issues, working together with
University professors and students in co-design workshops to find solutions
that they apply back in their communities.