A Tanzanian gold mining company, part of the Phiros group.
Huudi Mining is the trading name of Huudi Forest Company Limited, incorporated in the United Republic of Tanzania in 2019. In 2024 we began developing small-scale gold mining in the Lupa Gold Field. Today a Tanzanian-led team runs our Msesule operation.
Our story
Gold was discovered on the Lupa in 1922, and informal mining continues there today. Huudi Forest Company Limited was incorporated in 2019 and, in 2024, began developing small-scale gold mining in the goldfield, within Tanzania's licensing framework.
In 2025 we started to mechanise Msesule, one step at a time. Today 30-tonne and 5-tonne excavators open a trench along the vein, and the crew strips the wall rock and sorts the ore before processing.
In February 2026 the Tanzania Mining Commission Laboratory in Dar es Salaam assayed samples from the site, and a ground magnetic survey followed in April. In September we commissioned our processing circuit on site, from crushing and milling to cyanide leaching in vats, and processed the first batch. We have sold doré through official channels since then.
Production is now ramping up, with 30 employees at Msesule. Our Operations page describes each step, from the trench to the sale of our doré.
How we work
We rely on independent specialists for technical work and on a third-party laboratory for assays. An independent Competent Person is budgeted for the resource programme.
We use no mercury, and a cyanide management plan has applied since commissioning. Our Responsibility page sets out its controls, along with our work on employment and land.
Our team on the ground
A Tanzanian-led team runs Msesule day to day, with employees recruited mainly in the region. Our Responsibility page covers recruitment, training and social cover.
Pascal Hubert
Co-founder and Operations Director
Pascal Hubert works on site full time and has lived in Tanzania since 2019. He brings 30 years of operational and commercial management in Africa. He oversees operations and works with the independent specialists who carry out our technical work.
Structure and compliance
Huudi Forest Company Limited conducts and finances mining and processing at Msesule and employs the site team.
Huudi holds licensed mining rights over an active gold concession in the Lupa Gold Field, through our local operations team. The company also holds licences for manganese, copper–cobalt and nickel, and a gold dealer's licence that it uses today.
Qualified investors can review our licence and corporate structure under NDA, as part of their due diligence.
Huudi is part of the Phiros group, based in Paris. Phiros SA publishes this website.
The Phiros group in Tanzania
Phiros is a French group with businesses in Europe and Africa. Huudi is its mining company, with a remit covering gold, copper, cobalt, manganese and nickel in Tanzania.
The group runs other businesses in Tanzania. Kalao, its farming and livestock company, manages more than 8,000 hectares. BSF Tanzania, part of Kalao, works in insect-protein biotechnology. Kipeo is the group's tourism company.
See our operationsQuestions about Huudi Mining
What is Huudi Mining?
Huudi Mining is the trading name of Huudi Forest Company Limited, a gold mining company registered in Tanzania and part of the Paris-based Phiros group. Huudi Mining operates Msesule Gold, an active open-pit gold mine in the Lupa Gold Field, in Tanzania's Mbeya Region, with an on-site processing circuit in service since September 2026. Huudi Mining also holds licences for manganese, at development stage, and for copper–cobalt and nickel, at exploration stage.
Who is behind Huudi Mining?
Huudi Mining is part of the Phiros group, a French group based in Paris that also runs farming, insect-protein and tourism businesses in Tanzania. Pascal Hubert, co-founder and Operations Director of Huudi Mining, works at the Msesule site full time and has lived in Tanzania since 2019. A Tanzanian-led team runs the operation day to day, with 30 employees recruited mainly in the region (October 2026).
Does Huudi Mining produce gold today, and how is it sold?
Yes, Huudi Mining produces gold at Msesule Gold, its open-pit mine in Tanzania's Lupa Gold Field. Production has been ramping up since the on-site processing circuit came into service in September 2026. Huudi Mining has sold gold doré since its first batch that month, through Tanzania's official channels, including the Bank of Tanzania's domestic gold purchase programme.
What licences does Huudi Mining hold?
Huudi Mining holds licensed mining rights over an active gold concession in Tanzania's Lupa Gold Field, through its local operations team. Huudi Mining also holds licences for manganese, at development stage, and for copper–cobalt and nickel, at exploration stage. Huudi Forest Company Limited, which trades as Huudi Mining, holds a gold dealer's licence that it uses today. Qualified investors can review the licence structure under a non-disclosure agreement.
Does Huudi Mining use mercury?
No, Huudi Mining does not use mercury at Msesule Gold, its gold mine in Tanzania's Lupa Gold Field. Huudi Mining recovers gold by gravity separation, then by cyanide leaching in vats, under a cyanide management plan in force since commissioning in September 2026. The plan sets five controls: controlled alkalinity, a water balance with no discharge, a sealed tailings pond, cyanide destruction before deposition and mercury screening of all third-party material.
How can a qualified investor obtain information about Huudi Mining?
Huudi Mining shares technical, corporate and financial information only with qualified and professional investors, under a non-disclosure agreement. Requests can be sent to contact@huudi-tz.com, directly or through the form on the Investors page of huudi-tz.com, and are answered within five working days. Once a non-disclosure agreement is signed, a visit to the Msesule site can be arranged. Nothing on huudi-tz.com constitutes an offer to the public or investment advice.