Mining is the Mission
From Dallas, Texas, Power Elements, Inc. has pioneered the first vertically integrated tantalum supply chain solution from Africa to the world, independent of the legacy artisanal and trading networks responsible for decades of human rights abuses.
The industry inherited its supply chains. We designed ours from first principles: vertical integration from mine to metal, built to run with the lowest cash costs using a ground-up artificial intelligence infrastructure.
Anchored by Africa’s largest industrial tantalum mine and Africa’s only tantalum refinery, the Power Elements mine-to-metal strategy began a decade ago.
Confronting the debate between industrial and artisanal mining, we reimagined what was possible and have successfully pioneered a transformation that evolved an artisanal and illegal mining community into a large-scale industrial mining town, employing five times more people and catalyzing prosperity in the community.
We have proven that industrial transformation does not have to come at the expense of artisanal livelihoods, and our tantalum and niobium refinery has challenged the outdated narrative that value-addition is not possible in Africa.
We have gone the extra mile to protect our downstream customers’ supply chain through a proprietary traceability mechanism, operated at arm’s length, to guarantee a fully transparent audit trail for every gram of metal we produce.
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