Tens of thousands of Indigenous and Maroon families in the Amazon live by small-scale gold mining. We help them do it without mercury — protecting their rivers, their health, and their future.
Mercury poisons the rivers, the fish, and the people of Suriname's interior. But it's also how entire villages feed their families. A blunt prohibition — with no working alternative — wouldn't rescue these communities. It would erase them.
So we work the third way: proven, mercury-free gold recovery that protects health and puts more gold in the pan. When the clean method pays better, change sticks.
We save mining to save mining-dependent Indigenous Amazonian cultures & communities from extinction.
We empower women and men miners to become practitioners and educators in mercury-free gold concentration, carbon-free electricity, and ecological reclamation — while addressing the health and social realities of this remote habitat.
Improved gold-recovery processes, taught as an economical path to clean mineral recovery — no mercury required.
Phased renewable energy for the jungle, beginning with solar electrification of the mining work-camps.
Achievable reclamation strategies that turn environmental compliance into real economic value.
In developmentAdapting proven chemical-free processing — as practiced in the Yukon — to local conditions, centered on gravity separation.
Sourcing and building recovery equipment suited to remote jungle mining and its legacy gear.
Displacing diesel generators with solar PV and battery storage (BESS) at the work-camps.
Spreading environmental-reclamation techniques built for topsoil-less Amazonian terrain.
Our work began here in June 2018, in a small, isolated, welcoming mining community. Mercury is banned nationwide — but no enforcement reaches the interior, so change has to make economic sense. We prove it by showing miners the gold their old equipment throws away.
A dense mining community beside a site already rehabilitated by the Guyana Geology & Mines Commission. We retrofit legacy sluices, teach gravity separation, and ran a gold-shop program on mercury-vapor recovery — where only 1 of 11 shops was compliant.
Your support puts clean-recovery equipment, training, and renewable power into the hands of the miners who need it most.
