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East Africa · UG

Where East African gold is refined and flown out.

Kampala is the trading hub for the whole Great Lakes region. Clear licensing, in-country refining and daily flights make it the natural place to consolidate, refine and export.

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Hub
Kampala, exporting through Entebbe
We do
Trading, Mining
Metal
Gold, Refined bars, Doré
Districts
Busia, Mubende, Buhweju, Karamoja, Namayingo

01Uganda

A regional hub

Uganda's own fields at Busia, Mubende and Buhweju produce steadily, but the country's bigger role is as the refining and export point for the region. Licensed Kampala refiners turn doré into bars, and the Mining and Minerals Act 2022 sets out clearly who may deal, refine and export.

We hold the dealer and export authorisations we need and work directly with licensed refiners, so we can buy doré in the field and ship refined metal from Entebbe.

02Uganda

What we buy

Doré and refined gold from licensed producers, dealers and refiners. Assay is done by an accredited laboratory and settlement is made in Kampala or offshore, whichever the seller prefers. Producers with steady output can take forward offtake with a pricing formula fixed in advance.

03Uganda

Mining partnerships

In Busia and Mubende we work with small-scale licence holders on better crushing and gravity circuits and on getting mercury out of the process. Our capital and their ground, with the metal coming to us under a written offtake.

Compliance

How we stay clean in Uganda.

The standard is the same everywhere. These are the specifics here.

  1. 01

    Licensed under the Mining and Minerals Act 2022

  2. 02

    Licensed dealers, refiners and producers only

  3. 03

    Accredited assay on every lot

  4. 04

    Export permit and certificate of origin issued in Kampala

  5. 05

    Enhanced checks on any cross-border material

In this market

What we do in Uganda.

  • 01Trading

    Gold trading

    We buy doré and refined gold from licensed producers in eight African markets, price it against the LBMA Gold Price and pay on assay.

    How we buy gold
  • 02Mining

    Mining

    Small and mid-scale gold mining with local licence holders. Our capital and management, their ground, the metal sold to us under offtake.

    Mining partnerships

Questions

Uganda, asked.

01Do you buy gold that comes from outside Uganda?

Only when its origin is documented and lawful. Cross-border material gets enhanced due diligence and ICGLR certification where the source country requires it. Undocumented metal is never bought.

02Can you pay in Uganda?

Yes. Shillings or dollars through Ugandan banks, or offshore if you hold a foreign-currency account.

Elsewhere

Also in East Africa.

No.MarketActivityOpen
01KenyaTrading, Exploration
02South SudanTrading, Exploration

Get in touch

desk@miningaccord.com
08.30 to 18.00 GMT

Selling gold in Uganda?

Our Uganda team buys from licensed producers, cooperatives and dealers, prices against London and pays on assay.