A once-in-100 years Bougainville gold opportunity
A landowner joint-venture alluvial gold project near Arawa, Bougainville, Papua New Guinea. This confidential Information Memorandum is offered to a limited group of sophisticated investors.
The proposition
Why this project stands apart
A rare combination of proven geology, an active deposit, and a legitimate landowner partnership.
Landowner joint venture
A 50/50 partnership with customary landowners and the Paramount Chief near Arawa - built on local legitimacy and benefit-sharing.
Proven, working deposit
A ~120-acre sedimentary alluvial clay pan already producing gold by hand. Field assays return roughly 100-112 grams of gold per tonne.
Modest capital to production
A$460k of equipment takes the operation from hand-dug pits to a plant treating ~5 tonnes of clay per day.
Responsible by design
Settlement ponds and non-toxic flocculants; washed clay becomes a brick & pottery by-product for a local cottage industry.
A province where the rocks have already paid
Bougainville's historic Panguna mine - a separate, hard-rock copper-gold operation - was among the world's largest, generating close to 44% of PNG's exports at its peak. Our Aropa clay-pit is a distinct, independent alluvial gold project near Arawa; we reference Panguna only as proof this province hosts world-scale mineralisation.
An ancient river bed beneath the clay
The deposit sits in a watered valley near Arawa. Beneath metres of gold-bearing clay lies an ancient river bed - and gold, being heavy, tends to concentrate with depth.
Grassroots gold, institutional discipline
Villagers already recover gold by hand with shovels and sluices. Disciplined capital, proper plant and professional operating systems unlock the scale the orebody has already demonstrated.
Every ounce refined is vaulted and tokenised
All gold recovered from the Aropa operation is refined to 999.9 purity and held in certified, independently audited gold bullion storage. These allocated reserves back Bitz - a fully gold-backed stablecoin - giving every token a tangible, physical gold entitlement rather than a promise.
Certified bullion storage
Refined 999.9 bullion is held in secure, insured and independently audited vault facilities.
Backs the Bitz stablecoin
Vaulted reserves underpin Bitz, a gold-backed stablecoin - real metal behind every token.
Tangible, auditable value
Each Bitz represents an allocated entitlement to physical gold, not an unbacked IOU.