Aurelius Minerals Limited develops solid mineral assets within Nigeria, applying institutional standards of geological discipline, operational safety, environmental stewardship and community partnership to a sector long underserved by them.
Aurelius Minerals Limited is a Nigerian solid-minerals development company focused on the responsible extraction and beneficiation of gold-bearing mineral resources within the West African geological province. The Company is organised around the conviction that disciplined operators, in time, define a sector.
Nigeria's mineral endowment — gold among it — is well established geologically and substantially under-developed at the formal, institutional level. Decades of informal extraction have proven the resource; what the sector has lacked is operators willing to do the slow, patient work of regulatory clearance, geological proof, community alignment, and operational excellence at scale.
Aurelius is built for that work. Our operating model places compliance, safety, and host-community partnership ahead of capital deployment, in the conviction that the operators who shape the next decade of Nigerian gold will be those whose foundations will withstand examination. We measure progress not by tonnes moved, but by the durability of the framework around the operation — legal, environmental, social, and technical.
The Company's approach reflects the maturity now visible in the federal and state framework around solid minerals: the Nigerian Minerals and Mining Act, the Central Bank's National Gold Purchase Programme, Pioneer Status fiscal incentives, and the Solid Minerals Development Fund — instruments built to attract organised, compliant operators into a long-overlooked sector.
Nigeria sits within the same West African gold belt that has produced Ghana, Mali, Burkina Faso and Côte d'Ivoire as significant African gold producers. Of those countries, Nigeria's gold sector is the least formalised — and by direct consequence, the least invested in. That asymmetry is closing.
The structural opening is policy-led. The Federal Government has assembled an institutional framework — the Minerals and Mining Act, the National Gold Purchase Programme administered by the Central Bank of Nigeria, Pioneer Status fiscal incentives for qualifying mining companies, and the Solid Minerals Development Fund — explicitly intended to attract organised, compliant operators into a sector that has historically been worked at the informal scale.
Demand-side conditions are similarly favourable. Gold itself, against the macroeconomic backdrop of recent years, has performed as a structural store of value. LBMA-linked pricing remains accessible to Nigerian producers through the CBN's domestic offtake channel, with international refining capacity available as a complementary export route under a duty-free regime for mineral exports.
What is missing — and what Aurelius is built to provide — is the operating layer: companies prepared to meet the cost and patience of disciplined operation, while the broader sector continues to formalise around them.
Aurelius operates the full upstream value chain — from prospecting through to the preparation of mineral product for authorised offtake and export-grade trade. The model is integrated by design: each stage informs and disciplines the next.
Reconnaissance, sampling, assay and survey programmes, conducted to establish defensible grade and continuity ahead of capital commitment. No site is operationalised without a documented geological basis.
Plant-based extraction operated to recognised safety, environmental and recovery standards, with rigorous yield reconciliation, biometric workforce control, and dual-key vault custody at every stage.
On-site concentration and product preparation, optimised for grade integrity and the assay specifications of authorised buyers. Recovery is reconciled batch-by-batch and reported into the Company's controls regime.
End-to-end custody and delivery of mineral product into authorised domestic offtake channels, including the Central Bank of Nigeria's National Gold Purchase Programme. Export readiness is built into every shipment.
Mining is a long-cycle business. The land, water and people present at the start are present at the end — and what they remember of an operator outlives any single tonne of mineral. Aurelius operates on that timescale, with the responsibilities that come with it built into the operating model from day one.
Every site is preceded by a formal Community Development Agreement defining the Company's obligations to the people whose land hosts the operation — covering social investment, employment, dispute resolution and long-term legacy.
Environmental Impact Assessment is completed and lodged before site activity. Active dewatering, waste-rock management, water reuse and progressive rehabilitation are designed into the plan, not retrofitted to it.
Operations are run on documented HSE protocols aligned with international mining safety standards: pre-task risk assessment, PPE compliance, incident reporting, and continuous workforce training. Zero serious harm is the standing target.
Workforce, suppliers, equipment hire and services are sourced from the Nigerian mining ecosystem wherever capability exists. Specialist roles are filled in line with the Federal Government's local-content framework.
Mining rewards the disciplined operator. Aurelius is built around a small set of non-negotiable principles — chosen because the consequences of compromise in this sector are difficult, and often impossible, to reverse.
No capital is committed ahead of regulatory clearance, geological validation, or operational readiness. Stage-gated deployment protects the asset, the partner, and the host community alike.
Federal, state and community-level licensing, Environmental Impact Assessment, Community Development Agreements and lawful tax and royalty structuring are conditions of operation, not optional features of it.
We operate where we are present. Sites are managed on the ground, by accountable personnel, under direct supervision — not by remote control. Day-to-day reality is the basis for decision-making.
Capital partners receive clear visibility on milestones, risks, and operational reality — favourable and otherwise. Investor capital is treated with the same care the Company applies to its own.
Plans are built on prudent assumptions and stress-tested margins. The Company is structured to remain economic across a wide range of commodity, regulatory and macro conditions — not optimised for one.
A mining company is only as durable as the framework around it. Aurelius is structured for examination — by regulators, partners, host communities and capital providers alike — because that examination is the test that matters.
The Company is incorporated as a private company limited by shares under the Companies and Allied Matters Act of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, and is subject to the supervisory regime of the Corporate Affairs Commission. Its mineral activities fall under the Nigerian Minerals and Mining Act 2007 and its associated Mining Regulations, administered by the Federal Ministry of Solid Minerals Development through the Mining Cadastre Office. Tax, audit and reporting obligations are met through the Federal Inland Revenue Service framework, with Pioneer Status applied for in line with NIPC guidance.
Beyond the statutory minimum, Aurelius operates a stage-gated capital governance model in which no material commitment is made ahead of full licensing, independent geological validation, executed Community Development Agreement, and operational and HSE readiness review.
Anti-bribery, anti-money-laundering, sanctions screening and conflict-mineral standards are written into the Company's commercial counterparty controls, in alignment with OECD Due Diligence Guidance for responsible mineral supply chains.
Aurelius is selective in its capital and commercial relationships. The Company prefers to engage with a small number of well-aligned partners, and welcomes considered enquiries from: