We connect artisanal and small-scale miners and claim owners with capital, technical expertise and modern gold processing—building stronger enterprises and creating shared prosperity.
Industrial capability. Local enterprise. Shared prosperity.
Magaya Mining is a Zimbabwean gold business built around partnership. We bring together mineral resources, entrepreneurial miners, capital and processing infrastructure to unlock value across the gold production chain.
Our model supports artisanal and small-scale miners and claim owners through access to finance, technical assistance, logistics and professional gold processing. Through supply arrangements and joint ventures, we help turn mineral potential into productive businesses and sustained economic opportunity.
02 — Our Story
Built on partnership. Driven by purpose.
Magaya Mining began with a simple conviction: Zimbabwe’s artisanal and small-scale miners should have the opportunity to build stronger businesses and share meaningfully in the wealth they create.
Founder shareholders Tristan Schutte and Zweli Lunga turned that conviction into a business model built around partnership. Motivated by a desire to empower miners and contribute to real, lasting change, they placed access to finance, technical expertise, logistics and modern gold processing at the heart of Magaya Mining’s approach. Their ambition was to build a commercially successful business by helping miners themselves succeed.
Together with the wider Magaya Mining team, they continue to advance that founding purpose: connecting local enterprise with industrial capability to support safer, more productive and more responsible gold production.
For Magaya Mining, progress means more than producing more gold. It means stronger livelihoods, sustainable local businesses and greater opportunity for the communities in which we operate.
Magaya Mining combines processing infrastructure, financing, technical support, logistics and commercial relationships around participating miners and claim owners. The distinction is the way these capabilities connect as one partnership model rather than operating as isolated services.
Aggregated Processing Plants
One processing plant for all.
Financing
Where a technical assessment supports it, we provide loans and equipment so partners can develop their claims and grow production, on clear, agreed repayment terms.
Technical Support
Our specialists share training and hands-on expertise, from exploration and sampling to mine planning and safety.
04 — Our Place in the Gold Value Chain
Relationships across the gold value chain.
Gold moves from the ground to market through a chain of people and partners. Magaya Mining sits at the centre of that chain, connecting the miners who produce ore, the claim owners who hold the rights, the contractors who keep operations moving and the refinery that buys the gold.
Claim Owners
Holders of mining rights who may not mine the ground themselves. We partner with them to evaluate and develop their claims, often through joint ventures, guiding them on planning, compliance and turning a claim into a productive asset.
Participating Miners
Small-scale miners who mine and supply ore to our plants. We sponsor capable miners with finance, equipment and business guidance, helping them grow into formal, well-run and profitable enterprises.
Processing
Our aggregated processing plants serve our partners. Designed for efficiency, they use advanced crushing, milling and carbon-in-leach (CIL) techniques to recover the gold from partner ore.
Fidelity Gold Refinery
Gold recovered at our plants is sold to Fidelity Gold Refinery, Zimbabwe’s authorised gold buyer, so every sale is lawful, documented and traceable from mine to market.
Vision · Mission · Strategic Goals
What we're building towards.
Our Vision
To make Zimbabwe a global model of responsible, inclusive gold production—where artisanal and small-scale miners thrive, mercury-free processing is the norm, and gold creates lasting prosperity for communities and the nation.
Our Mission
To unlock the potential of artisanal and small-scale miners by connecting them to capital, technical expertise, efficient mercury-free processing and trusted markets—building profitable enterprises, protecting people and the environment, and creating shared value for miners, shareholders, communities and Zimbabwe.
Strategic Goals
Accessible mercury-free processing
Make mercury-free processing accessible and commercially attractive.
Formalisation through partnership
Help ASM enterprises become established, capable and legally recognised businesses, with access to support and opportunity.
Better miner livelihoods
Support better recovery, transparent commercial participation and stronger miner livelihoods.
Trusted mine-to-market supply chains
Support documented, verifiable and lawful supply chains from source through authorised sale.
Protect people, land & water
Strengthen safety, training, environmental controls, water management and rehabilitation.
Shared prosperity
Create value through employment, local procurement, skills, enterprise and community priorities.
Our ambition is to grow gold production in a way that strengthens miner livelihoods, protects people and the environment, and creates lasting value for host communities. We will report on our progress, the challenges we face and the actions we are taking to improve.
A · Governance & Responsible Sourcing
Trust and accountability
Supplier assessment, lawful sourcing, traceability, business ethics, human rights, financial accountability and grievance handling.
B · People, Miners & Communities
People-centred progress
Worker safety and wellbeing, miner development and documented community investment.
C · Environmental Responsibility
Measured environmental performance
Our aggregated processing plants centralise the waste, chemical and environmental footprints of small-scale miners. With these footprints in one place, mercury reduction, chemical management, water stewardship, tailings, rehabilitation, energy and emissions can be properly controlled, monitored and measured.
Partner With Us
Bring the resource. Build the opportunity together.
Who we want to partner with
We want to partner with
Miners & Ore Suppliers
Miners and suppliers looking for trusted processing and supply relationships.
We want to partner with
Claim Owners & Joint-Venture Partners
Claim owners looking for a capable partner to evaluate, develop or support an opportunity.
We want to partner with
Technical, Commercial & Development Partners
Organisations that can strengthen equipment, engineering, finance, training and delivery.
What a partnership can look like
Bring the opportunityYou may bring ore, a mining claim, technical capability or another resource.Find the right fitTogether we explore where Magaya Mining’s processing, finance, technical or commercial strengths can add value.Build shared valueA suitable partnership should create clear benefits, responsibilities and a practical way forward for everyone involved.
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In 2021, Magaya Mining was registered as a company, founded to work alongside small-scale miners with the finance, know-how, transport and processing they need to grow.
2023
Building the foundations
In 2023, Magaya Mining put the right structure in place, bringing its operations, people and systems together, ready to grow.
2024
Amatola comes online
Construction began at Amatola, our newest site, in July 2024. Just five months later, in December 2024, the plant processed its first material, taking our model to a new region and bringing reliable processing closer to the miners who supply it.
2025
Processing ore from the start
Chandelier at Pickstone marked a new step for Magaya Mining. It is our first plant designed to process ore directly, adding a new capability to our network and widening the ways we can support the miners and partners who supply us.
2025
Consistent growth
In the same year, we built a new plant at Amaveni. Adding another major plant within a single year reflects the steady, disciplined growth of our network: built one site at a time, and always around the needs of the small-scale miners we serve.
2026
Expanding Walden
Our story returns to where it began. We have started building a new plant at Walden, designed to process ore directly. When it is finished, it will strengthen the site that started it all.
