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 We believe that to evolve the outdated mineral supply chain, it is going to be […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
An opaque, outdated and fragmented supply chain – Sprint 1 Learnings with FCDO
Minerals are fundamental for today’s modern society. They are in all electronics, from smartphones to electric cars. That is the demand. The reality of the supply is that many of the minerals come from artisanal mining in sub-Saharan Africa. Our strategic partnership with the FCDO and, in particular, the Frontier Technologies Livestreaming Programme (FTL) is […]
Bringing small scale mining into the 21st century with the backing of FCDO
Our mission is to secure the mineral value chain from earth to tech, from the moment a mineral comes out of the ground through the efforts of artisanal miners to the point where it is a component in your smartphone. We at Minexx use blockchain technology and digital payments to bring traceability, transparency and trust […]
