Gold & Precious Gem Mining

Various West and East Africa locations

Our native Sierra Leonean CEO, Benjamin Davies, runs the Freetown and Dubai, UAE, offices and is experienced in West African mining operations, technology, management, and the commercial trading of precious and base metals, minerals, and aggregates worldwide.

He is the only Sierra Leone graduate of the HRD Antwerp Rough Diamond Sorting & Planning Course, he qualified in 2019.

For several years he has been advising European, FarEastern and Gulf clients on the purchase of quality cut and polished precious gems, primarily sapphires under our marketing vehicle Lithos Safiar in Dubai.

BENJAMIN DAVIES - BISHOPSTRADE CEO HRD ANTWERP ROUGH DIAMOND GRADING COURSE SEP 2019
DAVIES HRD CERTIFICATE
Bishopstrade directors

SAPPHIRE Mining

Our marketing agency – Lithos Safiar – sells our sapphires from our new source in West Africa, which are then sent to Sri Lanka for cutting and polishing ready to ship to pre-ordered customers

Lithos Safiar

 

GOLD MIning

 

Bishopstrade has built relationships with several Artisanal Small-scale Gold Miners (ASGM) in both West and East Africa.

 

Services we supply include :

 

– Geological surveys & mapping

– Logistics and refining

– Sales

– Equipment leasing

– Finance for acquisition