Updates

What has actually happened.

Dated, in order, newest first. Nothing appears on this page that did not happen — an empty month is more honest than a full one that was written to look busy.

Platform

Najd Office is available to other operators

The platform we run our own operations on — projects, budgets, compliance and three currencies in one place — is now licensed to other mining companies on an annual subscription.

Najd Office was built for our own work across Tanzania, Sudan and Gambia, against a filing calendar that does not forgive and in three currencies that do not agree with each other. It was not built to be sold. It is being licensed now because operators who saw it working asked for it.

Every action is logged, documents are encrypted in the browser before they leave it, and access is role-based down to the individual record. The exchange rate is frozen onto an expense at the moment of approval, so a figure approved last quarter still means what it meant last quarter.

It is offered on an annual subscription with the same support our own crews get, because it is the same system.

Company

Capability statement published

A four-page document covering all four services, the equipment, the method and what we need in order to quote — downloadable from any page of this site.

Buyers in mining and energy ask for a capability statement by name in a tender pack, and having one ready is the difference between being shortlisted and being asked to send one.

It is generated from the same content as this website, so the two cannot drift apart: when a service changes here, it changes there.

Anything worth telling you about goes here first. If you would rather it came to you, the same items are published as a feed.