Our Purpose
Generate superior returns for our shareholders by identifying and investing in precious metal exploration and mining opportunities with the potential to create significant value.
Since 1987
Shaw Minerals — Gold Production and Rare Gemstones
Shaw Minerals is a United Kingdom focused company that has successfully transitioned from explorer to gold producer, holding a portfolio of projects in the heart of several of the world's most sought-after mining districts.
1987
Year founded
37+
Years of mining leadership
3
Continents of operation
Purpose, strategy and values
What A World of Opportunity means to us
At Shaw Minerals Gold Mines Limited, this phrase embodies the purpose, strategy and values critical to the success of our organisation and to the well-being of our employees, their families and our local communities.
Our Strategy
Shaw Minerals has assembled a highly accomplished team of proven professionals widely recognised for their expertise, sound judgement and trusted decision-making.
Safe Jurisdictions
Doing business where the rule of law is respected means that our properties are our properties.
World-Class Districts
Our focus on world-class mining districts in North America helps balance risk versus reward in favour of our shareholders. These accessible regions reduce the cost of discovery and allow for an accelerated exploration cycle.
Sensible Partnerships
The partnership model has been an important part of the Company's success. It allows for a diversification of both financial and asset-related risk, and leverages the experience of and builds relationships with other peer companies.
Our Values
Our values reflect our belief that long-term success cannot be realised without also safeguarding the confidence we have earned from our shareholders, partners and local communities. We draw upon their experience, wisdom and concerns to ensure our practices and impacts maintain the highest regard for the well-being of the environment and their cultural legacy.
Our products
Stones and metals, sourced at origin
Two divisions, one standard of quality — from GIA-graded coloured gemstones to industrial ferroalloys shipped with full assay documentation.
Executive Chairman
Engr James David Shaw
Engr James David Shaw is a Professional Mining Engineer with over 37 years of mining experience, originally from Liverpool, England. He studied in London and began his career in sales, where a lifelong knack for gems eventually drew him into the mineral industry.
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Trusted by buyers and partners
“The tanzanite and tsavorite parcels we receive from Shaw Minerals arrive graded exactly as certified. In fifteen years of buying coloured stone, I have not worked with a more consistent supplier.”
Karim HaddadDirector of Sourcing, Meridian Jewellery House“Ferro chrome and ferro silicon manganese delivered on schedule, every quarter, with full assay documentation. Their logistics team simply does what it says it will do.”
Grace AdeyemiHead of Raw Materials, Atlas Steelworks