ABOUT
A house of record.
Prime Gold Ventures was founded on a simple observation: the world's most ancient commodity is moved with some of its most modern paperwork problems. We set out to build a sourcing house where the ledger is the product.
§ 01 — ORIGIN
Why we exist.
Artisan mining produces roughly a fifth of the world's gold — and nearly all of the world's documentation gaps. Bars arrive at buyers with incomplete provenance, inconsistent assays, and pricing that rarely reflects what the miner was paid.
We founded Prime Gold Ventures in 2025 to close that gap. We work only with cooperatives we know, pay in local currency on delivery, assay independently in-country, and ship with full chain-of-custody to vaults in the UAE.
PRINCIPLES, IN SHORT
Provenance is the product.
Restraint over ornament.
Two continents, one standard.
Documented, not decorated.
§ 02 — THE KEEPERS
Leadership.
Khalid Al-Farsi
DIRECTOR, WEST AFRICA OPERATIONS · BAMAKO
Twenty years at the intersection of mining cooperatives and export regulation across Mali and Burkina Faso.
Amadou Diarra
DIRECTOR, DUBAI VAULT · DMCC
Former head of precious-metals custody at a regional private bank. LBMA-certified vault master.
Akosua Mensah
HEAD OF ASSAY · KUMASI
Metallurgist. Oversees independent purity verification and LBMA-aligned documentation.
Yasmine Chakir
HEAD OF COMPLIANCE · DMCC
OECD due-diligence specialist. Leads our responsible-sourcing and KYC programme.