Minexx Exports First Kilo Of Blockchain Tracked Gold From West Africa
LONDON December 16th, 2021 – Minexx has exported the first kilo of gold tracked through its platform from Burkina Faso, bringing transparency and trust to the supply chain. The company deploys its blockchain platform to secure the mineral supply chain bringing benefits for miners, smelters, traders, tech companies and governments. It crucially also brings compliance and […]
First kilogram traced and exported from Burkina Faso – Sprint 5 learnings with FCDO
It is always a key moment when a proof of concept turns into reality. During the fourth sprint we relayed how we had been looking to design our product for the gold market as well as developing our partnership model. We believe that to evolve the outdated mineral supply chain, it is going to be […]
Solidaridad and Minexx Seal Partnership to Improve the Mineral Supply Chain
Minexx has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Solidaridad, the leading global organisation focused on creating fair and sustainable supply chains. Minexx deploys its traceability platform to secure the mineral supply chain, bringing benefits to miners, smelters, traders, tech companies and governments. Solidaridad will contribute to the content development of the platform, so it can better […]
Deploying a fintech product and onboarding – Sprint 4 learnings with FCDO
During the fourth sprint we have been looking at how to design our product to the gold market and onboard more customers. Deploying a fintech product for the sector Minexx introduced a new fintech product offering focussed on providing access to financial products to our partners. Partners start with MineSmart (operating system for small scale […]
How consumers are driving change in mineral supply chains
We are closer to minerals than we think. The smartphones in our pockets are powered by them. So are many other key drivers of the clean tech transition such as electric vehicles. There are signs of the increasing influence of the ethical consumer. We increasingly want to know the provenance of what we are consuming […]
Field insights – Sprint 3 learnings with FCDO
During the third sprint as part of the FCDO programme we distilled our findings into a report looking at what we had learnt, made further improvements to the MineSmart product and undertook some sites visits to a mining area in DRC. Producing a learning report A major focus of the sprint was distilling our learnings […]
New regulation driving responsible sourcing
Grassroots as well as top-down action is needed to secure the mineral chain and the race to net zero The price of cobalt is on the rise, driven by the increasing demand from electric vehicle makers and the consumers who want to drive them. Much of this rare mineral comes from the Democratic Republic of […]
Emmanuel Beau: Taking on a new impact challenge at Minexx to secure mineral supply chains
In a decade spent in the access to energy industry, we have seen it grow from a mere dream to a billiondollar market. I would like to thank all the entrepreneurs and their teams, my colleagues and ourinvestors, for their outstanding support and our collective learnings and achievements. Who dares, wins: Probabilities of success were […]
Minexx appoints Chief Investment Officer to accelerate mission to secure mineral supply chains
Minexx is today announcing the appointment of Emmanuel Beau as Chief Investment Officer as the company accelerates its ability to secure supply chains for minerals, from the moment they are unearthed to the point at which they are used in electronic products. Mr Beau joins Minexx after successfully launching the Energy Access Ventures Fund, a […]
An introduction to artisanal gold mining – Sprint 2 learnings with FCDO
The scale of informal, artisanal mining is massive — across communities, across countries, and across the minerals themselves. We call it the world’s most unsophisticated $100bn market and we are setting about redesigning it. Through the Frontier Technologies Programme, Minexx has been testing various aspects of our approach, namely to secure the supply chain from […]
