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Nairobi, Kenya — international gold sourcing

Gold sourcing from Kenya, for buyers who verify before they transact.

Aptus Group coordinates gold sourcing from Kenya for refineries, bullion dealers, jewellery manufacturers and commodity traders abroad. Independent assay, an export file that reconciles document to document, and our own customs clearing, insured vaulting and freight in Nairobi.

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Based in
Nairobi, Kenya
Serving
International buyers
Purity
Independent assay
In-house
Freight & vaulting

Why an international buyer would engage us

Everything we tell you is designed to be checked by someone else

Gold sourcing from this region has a fraud problem, and buyers are right to be sceptical. We have built our process so that the parts that matter are verified by people we do not pay.

Verification you control

You may instruct your own assay laboratory and have your own inspector present at sampling and weighing. We do not ask you to rely on our figure.

A file that reconciles

Licence, permit, assay, invoice, packing list, customs entry and airway bill agree on entity, weight, fineness and date. Inconsistency is the tell, so we remove it.

Benchmark pricing

Quotations reference a published benchmark and a stated differential. We do not offer gold below the market, because nobody legitimately can.

Our own infrastructure

Customs clearing, insured vaulting and freight coordination are our own operations in Nairobi, not a chain of introductions.

We publish no certifications, transaction volumes, client names or accreditations that we cannot evidence. What we can and cannot substantiate

What we provide

A single counterparty across sourcing, verification, documentation and export

Most buyers sourcing from this region end up assembling four or five separate relationships. Ours is one desk, accountable end to end.

Gold sourcing and supply coordinationMatching a buyer requirement to available Kenyan supply, and quoting against a published benchmark with a stated differential.Buyer qualification and counterparty diligenceMutual KYC, sanctions and PEP screening, beneficial ownership, and the provenance record behind the material.Export documentation and customs clearingPermit, declaration, certificate of origin, invoicing and clearance handled by our own licensed clearing operation.Insured vaulting between verification and exportAccess-controlled, insured storage in Nairobi so material is never held informally while a transaction completes.Secure freight and delivery coordinationSpecialist air freight to your nominated refinery, vault or consignee, with continuous cover across every handover.

Gold sourcing from Kenya

Why the transaction happens in Nairobi, not at the mine

Kenyan gold is produced in the west of the country, much of it artisanal and small-scale. Everything that makes a cross-border transaction safe is in Nairobi.

The Directorate of Mines that issues and records dealer licences; the Kenya Revenue Authority that clears the export; commercial banks with correspondent relationships; assay capacity; insured storage; and Jomo Kenyatta International Airport with direct long-haul freight to the Gulf, Europe and Asia. A buyer sourcing from Kenya is contracting into that infrastructure — which is why the identity and licence position of the counterparty matters more than any story about a deposit.

The Kenyan marketSourcing in Nairobi
Governing framework
The Mining Act, 2016 and its regulations, administered by the Ministry of Mining, Blue Economy and Maritime Affairs through the Directorate of Mines.
Export authority
A Mineral Dealer's Trading Licence permits buying, selling, aggregating and exporting. A Mineral Dealer's Permit is domestic only and carries no export authority.
Export documentation
Export permit, proof of lawful ownership, dealer's licence, assay certificate, KRA tax compliance, export declaration, certificate of origin, invoice, packing list, customs entry, insurance certificate and airway bill.
Language and law
Commercial and legal documentation is in English, and contracts can specify governing law and dispute forum explicitly.

How the process works

Six steps from enquiry to delivered lot

Nothing in this sequence asks you to trust us. Each step produces something a third party can check.

  1. Submit your requirement

    Form, indicative quantity, fineness, destination market and preferred transaction structure. No obligation, and no material moves.

    • Enquiry acknowledged with a named contact
    • We say plainly if we cannot serve it

  2. Buyer qualification

    Mutual KYC. We verify who you are and your capacity to transact; you verify the same about us.

    • Corporate identity and beneficial ownership
    • Sanctions and PEP screening
    • Destination and end-use

  3. Supply verification

    We confirm availability against the requirement and establish the provenance record before quoting firm.

    • Chain-of-custody documentation
    • Origin records from point of purchase

  4. Independent assay

    Purity is established by an independent laboratory. You may instruct your own, and your inspector is welcome at sampling and weighing.

    • Fire assay as settlement basis
    • Retained sample held for dispute
    • Witnessed calibrated weights

  5. Commercial terms and documentation

    Benchmark, pricing date, differential, Incoterms, exporter of record and settlement mechanism, in writing before anything ships.

    • Export permit and customs file assembled
    • Documents reconcile across the set

  6. Secure logistics and settlement

    Insured storage between verification and export, specialist air freight to your nominated consignee, and settlement against a verifiable event.

    • No payment before verification
    • Bank-to-bank, named entities only
The process in detail

International buyers

Built for counterparties who have to answer to a compliance function

Refineries, dealers and manufacturers abroad do not only need metal. They need a transaction that can be explained to their own bank and auditor eighteen months later.

Who we work with

  • Refineries and refiner agents
  • Bullion and precious metals dealers
  • Jewellery manufacturers
  • Commodity trading houses
  • Import and export companies
  • Institutional and private buyers operating within their own regulations

What we provide to your compliance team

  • Corporate identity and beneficial ownership records
  • Licence and export permit references, confirmable at source
  • Provenance documentation for the material
  • Independent assay certification and retained samples
  • A customs and freight file that reconciles

Markets we are set up to serve

  • Hong Kong and the wider Asian trading centres
  • United Arab Emirates
  • Europe and the United Kingdom
  • Türkiye and the Levant
  • Other destinations subject to refiner acceptance and route feasibility
Working with international buyersFor Hong Kong buyers

Buyer resources

What we know, written down

Original guides on Kenyan export procedure, assay, transaction structure and the fraud patterns this region is known for.

All resources

Common questions

What buyers ask before they make contact

Can international buyers source gold through Kenya?
Yes. Kenya licenses mineral dealing and export under the Mining Act, 2016, administered by the Ministry of Mining, Blue Economy and Maritime Affairs. Export requires a permit supported by a dealer's licence, an assay certificate, tax compliance and the customs documentation those depend on. The requirement for a foreign buyer is to transact with a counterparty that holds the correct licence category and to verify it at source.
Where is Aptus Group based?
Airport North Road, Nairobi, Kenya. The trade desk, our customs clearing operation and our vaulting facility are all in Nairobi, which is where the regulator, the tax authority, the banks, the laboratories and the long-haul air freight capacity are.
What information do you need in a first enquiry?
Your company and country, the form and fineness you need, an indicative quantity and frequency, your destination market and consignee, and your preferred transaction structure. That is enough for us to tell you whether we can serve the requirement.
How is purity established?
By independent assay, not by our own figure. Fire assay is the reference method and the appropriate settlement basis; handheld XRF reads only the surface and is used for screening. You are free to instruct your own laboratory and to have your inspector present at sampling and weighing.
Do you work with buyers in Hong Kong?
Yes — Hong Kong is one of the markets we are set up to serve, and we maintain a page covering the considerations specific to that corridor, including the Hong Kong DPMS registration regime, freight routing and refiner acceptance.
Do you ask for payment before delivery?
No. We do not ask for advance fees, release fees, clearance fees or cash, and we do not invoice from or take payment into any account other than our own registered company account. Any approach claiming to be Aptus Group that does otherwise is not us.

More at our full list of questions.

Next step

Looking to source gold from Kenya?

Tell us what you are looking for — form, quantity, purity and destination market — and our trade desk will tell you plainly whether we can serve it, and on what terms.

Submit a buyer enquiryRead the buyer guide first
WhatsApp the trade desk+254 101 631 676Call the trade desk+254 101 631 676Email with your requirementinfo@aptusgroup.com

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