GIGGS is the sovereign platform of the Ghana Gold Board — one auditable chain of custody from satellite detection at the mine site to Good Delivery in London. Detection, licensing, assay, fiscal assurance, AML screening and export control, recorded on a single tamper‑evident ledger.
Eight governance domains operate on shared infrastructure — the same identity, the same audit chain, the same source of truth.
Fused SAR, optical, thermal and vegetation-index analysis detects mining activity across the national territory — including illegal operations under cloud cover.
Ten custody stages from mine gate to vault receipt. Tamper-evident seals, GPS-tagged consignments and countersigned transfers at every handover.
Mining, buying and export permits verified against the national register. Public application intake with structured review and full decision history.
Sliding-scale royalty, corporate tax, MDF and district-assembly shares computed automatically per consignment — every cedi traceable to a lawful basis.
Source-of-funds verification, PEP screening and live checks against UN, OFAC and UK sanctions lists. Threshold monitoring with direct SAR workflows.
Independent laboratory determination of weight and purity, attested by PMMC officers and reconciled against every downstream custody record.
Gold moves through a defined lifecycle from discovery to Good Delivery. Each stage names its authority, its legal basis and its live status.
Satellite detection of mining activity · GIGGS Surveillance Layer
Permit issuance & register verification · Minerals Commission
Licensed production records · Mining operators
Independent purity & weight attestation · PMMC Laboratory
Sole legal buyer of ASM gold · Ghana Gold Board
Allocation to licensed exporters · GoldBod
Royalty, tax & statutory contributions · GRA + GoldBod
Sanctions, PEP & source-of-funds checks · Financial Intelligence Centre
Formal export authorisation · Minerals Commission + GoldBod
Clearance, seals & GPS tagging at KIA · GRA Customs
Insured carriage with live tracking · Insured carrier
Arrival cross-attestation · LBMA-certified refiner
Final certification closing the chain · London Bullion Market Association
GIGGS is operated as critical information infrastructure — engineered for audit, built for oversight.
Every material action — a transfer, an attestation, a fiscal computation, a permit decision — is written to a hash-chained ledger. Records cannot be silently altered; more than 413,000 entries and counting.
All data is processed and stored within the AWS Africa (Cape Town) region under Ghana’s Data Protection Act 843, with Agentics Technology Solutions registered as data controller.
Access is scoped by institutional role — from field officers to the Managing Director. Destructive actions require elevated authority and are individually logged against the acting officer.
Operated in line with the Cybersecurity Authority’s Critical Information Infrastructure Directives: encrypted in transit and at rest, continuously monitored, with defined incident-response procedures.
GIGGS serves the state, the industry and its regulators — each through the right door.
Detection, custody, fiscal and enforcement modules for authorised officers of the Ghana Gold Board and partner agencies.
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