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Gold Refinery Operations

Assay approvals and compliance in one shared view.

The challenge

Refineries coordinate assays, compliance checks and processing across several teams. When approvals and documents live in email, status is unclear and gaps surface late.

What we built

A refinery management demonstration covering assay approvals, compliance tracking and operational reporting. Each review step and its status sits in one shared interface, so processing and administrative teams coordinate from the same picture.

The AI layer

  • Planned: flags for missing documentation.
  • Planned: detection of unusual assay or recovery patterns for specialist review.
How it works

The workflow, step by step.

  1. 01Material received
  2. 02Assay submitted
  3. 03Assay approved
  4. 04Compliance checked
  5. 05Processed and reported
Architecture

How the pieces connect.

Inputs
  • Receipts
  • Assay results
  • Compliance documents
The system
  • Assay approvals
  • Compliance tracking
  • Review statuses
  • Operational reporting
  • Shared workspace
Planned AI
  • Flags for missing documentation
  • Detection of unusual assay or recovery patterns for specialist review
People
  • Operations
  • Compliance
  • Administration
Outputs
  • Approval trail
  • Compliance status
  • Operational reports

Functional architecture. Integrations and hosting are tailored to each client's environment.

Modules

Everything in one system.

01Assay approvals

Approval steps for every assay.

02Compliance tracking

Compliance requirements tracked alongside operations.

03Review statuses

A shared view of where each item stands.

04Operational reporting

Reporting across processing activity.

05Shared workspace

Processing and administrative teams in one place.

Interface preview

What your team would see.

Illustrative interface · sample data
Who uses it

Built around real roles.

Operations

Processes material and tracks lots.

Compliance

Checks documentation before release.

Administration

Reports on activity across the refinery.

In practice · illustrative example
An incoming lot's assay comes back. The approval is recorded in the shared view, compliance sees one document missing before release, and operations knows the lot's status without chasing emails.
Build your version

Start here, extend further.

Capabilities we can build on this foundation for your version of the system.

  • Responsible sourcing and chain-of-custody records
  • Lot-level mass balance and recovery tracking
  • Laboratory instrument data capture
  • Regulator-ready compliance reports
  • Customer portal for lot status and certificates
Questions

What clients ask us.

Can compliance and operations see the same status?

Yes. Every review step and its status sits in one shared interface.

Can it flag missing documents?

That is planned. AI would flag missing documentation and unusual assay or recovery patterns for specialist review.

Can you build a version of this for our business?

Yes. Every system starts with a discovery conversation about your workflow, data and goals, and we adapt the design to fit. Most engagements produce a working, testable system within a few weeks to a couple of months, depending on scope.

Can it integrate with the systems we already use?

Integration with existing tools such as ERPs, accounting packages, databases and document stores is scoped during discovery, so the system fits around how you already work.

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