Artisanal mining, made honest and verifiable.
Powered by Miners. Trusted by Markets. Yetu structures miners into a compliant cooperative, pays them transparently, and makes every mineral traceable from pit to market.
It is built as a cooperative standard meant to be repeated: one country at a time, starting with the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Every miner reached, no smartphone required.
The Yetu platform gives miners transparent, auditable access to cooperative services via mobile wallet and USSD, building trust, transparency and efficiency at scale.
My Account
Register, ID, PIN.
Payments
Balance, history, cash-out.
Deliveries
Track lots, grade & weight, disputes.
Finance & Health
Advances, equipment, health cover.
Rollout: Phase 1 MVP → Phase 2 financial services → Phase 3 scale & buyer traceability.
A lot recorded on the traceability platform: photograph taken on site, lot number, delivery date, storage and payment status. This record is the first link of the chain. The lot shown belongs to an operator on the platform, not to Yetu.
The same minerals once drummed, with gross and net weight per drum, grade, and the ITSCI and ASI tag numbers. Those tag numbers are what a downstream buyer audits.
The governance documents available to every operator: KYC form, grievance mechanisms, 3TG traceability guide, supplier code of conduct.
The paper trail attached to a single lot: C2 form, mine sheets, processing sheets and the tag list. This is what an auditor opens when a buyer asks where a mineral came from.
These are platform figures across every site using the system, not Yetu figures. Yetu joined in 2026 and its own traced volume is not published until the first audited lots close. The chart is here to show what the system records month by month, nothing more.
Screens captured on the live traceability platform in September 2026. Supplier names and commercial figures have been removed before publication.
The weighing point is where traceability actually starts: a lot that is not weighed and recorded on site cannot be certified downstream.
The same record drives the payment. The member is paid on their own wallet, on the day of sale.
Yetu is five months old and still in its set-up phase: full operations begin once the ministerial authorisation is granted. These are the figures it can evidence today, not a projection. Traced volume is published once the first audited lots are closed, and not before.
Sector figures for the Democratic Republic of Congo, not Yetu figures. Sources: ESI and ResponsibleAid for tantalum, Financial Afrik and Le Point.cd on 2025 export volumes for tin, Reuters and Discovery Alert for cobalt. This is the share of national output that a traceability system has to reach.
A vital sector, still left informal.
Artisanal and small-scale mining is how an estimated 45 million people work, and more than 315 million live, across Latin America, Africa and Asia. In the Democratic Republic of Congo it employs an estimated 2 million miners directly and supports the livelihoods of an estimated 10 million people. Everywhere, it remains largely informal, underserved and under-digitised.
World figures: World Bank, Artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM), 2024. DRC figures: World Bank estimate.
No access to finance
Miners work without credit, equipment financing or savings tools.
Unsafe conditions
Little protection, no health cover, exposure to exploitation.
No traceability
Weak integration into formal markets and exposure to price volatility.
Four levers that make the cooperative work.
Formalisation
Structuring miners into a compliant cooperative, constituted under OHADA cooperative law.
Digitalisation
Mobile wallet and platform for transparent payments, transaction tracking and production data.
Cash, cover and credit
Health cover, equipment financing, trade pre-financing and savings tools.
Responsible sourcing
Aligned with the OECD Due Diligence Guidance for Responsible Supply Chains of Minerals from Conflict-Affected and High-Risk Areas (3rd Edition): human rights, environment, traceability. Built so that buyers subject to EU Regulation 2017/821 and to section 1502 of the Dodd-Frank Act can file our records in their own due diligence.
From gatekeeper to service platform.
Miners are independent members, not employees, paid per production (weight × grade × price). Yetu turns the cooperative into a service provider miners can trust, and buyers can audit.
| Aspect | Current model | The Yetu standard |
|---|---|---|
| Status | Independent | Independent but structured |
| Payment | Cash, opaque | Digital, transparent |
| Contract | Informal membership | Structured & traceable |
| Cooperative role | Gatekeeper | Service provider & operator |
| Trust | Low | Built through data |
A model built for Africa.
Yetu started in the Democratic Republic of Congo and is designed as a replicable cooperative model, deployed country by country across the continent.
Country outlines from Natural Earth (1:110m). The marked point is Kalemie, on Lake Tanganyika, where the cooperative was constituted.
Phase 1 · Home country
Democratic Republic of Congo. Cooperative constituted in April 2026. Full operations begin once the ministerial authorisation is granted.
Phase 2 · Regional
Togo, Niger, Gabon, Ghana and Nigeria. Target markets for the cooperative model. No operation is running in these countries yet.
Phase 3 · Continental
Long-term ambition: a replicable cooperative standard for artisanal mining, deployed country by country.
Built to be trusted and verifiable.
Cooperative COCYMI
Cooperative constituted in Kalemie on 7 April 2026 under OHADA cooperative law. It is run by a management board of eight members, elected at the constitutive assembly.
OECD-aligned
Traceable, compliant sourcing, structured for buyer and funder due diligence.
Technology partner
Yetu is supported by a mining technology and market-access partner, as part of its corporate social responsibility commitment to the communities where it operates.
Three ways in, and what each one asks of you.
Yetu is a young cooperative with a working site and a partner that already runs traceability at scale. What follows is what we can actually do today, and what we need from you to do it.
Buy
For refiners, traders and manufacturers in Europe, the Gulf and Asia who need OECD-aligned upstream supply. Lots leave the site sealed and tagged, with chain-of-custody records you can export into your own due diligence file.
What we ask: your volume, grade and compliance requirements up front, so we do not commit to what a five-month-old cooperative cannot ship.
Fund
For development finance institutions, multilateral funds, foundations and corporate grant programmes working on artisanal mining formalisation, wherever they are based. Funding goes to equipment, safety gear, the member payment system and site registration.
What we ask: your reporting format before we apply. We would rather build to it than retrofit a report at the end.
Partner
For state agencies, international standards bodies and technical organisations. Yetu runs on a partner traceability platform and under its compliance framework, so training, audit and grievance handling are where cooperation is most useful.
What we ask: a named contact and a defined scope. A memorandum with no owner helps neither side.
Every route above goes to the same place: the form below, read by the team that handles Yetu's institutional relationships.
Partner with Yetu.
For funders, buyers of responsibly sourced minerals, and institutions supporting the formalisation of artisanal mining.