Our Core Values

Millennia Mining will set a global standard for excellence in all that we do: in the products we make, in how we serve our customers, in how we serve and empower our employees, in how we treat our suppliers and vendors, in how we steward resources, and how we treat the communities in which we operate.

Safety – We value the health and well-being of every person. We will carefully create work environments that minimize the opportunity for people to be harmed and will train everyone to act and work in a safe manner.

Excellence – We value excellence in quality, quantity, timeliness, uniqueness of design, and innovation. We will empower employees, sub-contractors and suppliers to achieve excellence in all aspects of their relationship with us.

Mutuality – We reject manipulation, threats, power games, artificial deadlines, and all other expressions of one-sided “win-lose” situations. We strive to create “win-win” situations in every interaction, where each person or party can know completely what is required to satisfy the other party, and can willingly deliver what the other party needs in a manner that merits exceptional compensation and other rewards commensurate with the value delivered.

Respect and Honor without Drama – We reject workplace drama in all forms: gossip, politics, innuendo, accusation, rudeness, sexual harassment, bigotry, venting, character assassination, and so on. We choose to believe the best about one another and strive to maintain an environment where we treat others as we want them to treat us. When disputes and personal offenses arise, we will deal with them face-to-face, one-on-one in private. If the offense is unresolved, we will confidentially include two or three peers to hear and render counsel to the parties. If still unresolved, the parties will confidentially include two or three senior executives, who will adjudicate the matter and pronounce a binding decision.

Management by Facts, Data, and Truth – We reject assertions, appeals to experience and the discussion of credentials as a basis for making decisions. We require the presentation and discussion of facts and data as the prelude to decision analysis. Where competing alternatives result from this analysis, personal and professional judgment may then be applied.

Transparency and Accountability – We will keep factual records and documentation of our performance for internal and external audits and will regularly report our performance in reference to mutually agreed upon objectives. When finding a shortfall or performance failure, a written corrective action plan will be created and implemented, subject to ongoing audits.

Servant Leadership – Leadership will model our core values in an authentic manner and invest time, effort, and resources as needed to empower our employees, subcontractors and other suppliers. The leadership’s goal is to achieve unparalleled professional excellence and inspire others to live the Millennia Mining values too!

Thousand Year Thinking – Our society has become a Google searched, minute news cycle, instant gratification way of life, reacting to immediate need, while losing the powerful perspective of time. Looking back a year … a decade, a generation, a lifetime … what would you do different? Is the world a better place because you lived? Yes, we must be relevant, current, and address issues; but, so many longer lasting things aren’t done because they take steps, patience, resources, perspective and global thinking, not just about ourselves, but about the rest of the planet as well. We build things with the planned obsolescence of the long term and as a result have mountains of trash across the world and dead zones in our oceans. We can’t remain oblivious to the collective destructiveness of our way of life. We wonder why many of the “Millennial” generation face a lack of hope; when for the first time in many decades, their parents are handing them a world that is worse than when they got it.

Hopefully, we can grow up as a species and learn to manage our world well. It will require changing the way we think. It is possible to build families, businesses, renewable resources, communities, cities, countries, and global collaborative networks with a wisdom and knowledge that propagates and produces positive results for thousands of years.

If we could look a thousand years ahead, what would we wish we had done today?

The Eden Purpose – Our country was founded on Judeo/Christian faiths that believed our world was beautifully and intelligently created for connection between God, man and the planet. According to these faiths, God originally intended for all things to collaborate in synergy. The only purpose given for over 2000 years was for us to “be fruitful, multiply and rule well all of the earth and its inhabitants.”

Our country’s Native American heritage has similar values of living in physical and spiritual communion with respect for the land, love of every form of life … human and non-human, harmony between humans, and harmony between humans and nature, where everything on earth is loved and revered.
A “fruitful” way of life is organic in its origin, springing from unity with others and the freedom to uniquely express itself. In this system there is a synergistic profit, not only for self-benefit, but for the good of others. This approach empowers and nurtures, yielding far more than it consumes. A “multiplying” way of life grows geometrically, not by addition or subtraction, but by the residual building upon itself and others, without re-inventing the wheel; the least amount of energy produces the greatest output of momentum.

A “ruling well” way of life involves intentionality where we don’t allow how we act and react to be determined by the actions and reactions of others. One must purposely choose to pursue a path and plan which takes into account what is inherently best for everyone; where everyone wins in harmony. It involves protection from those who would steal, kill and destroy, rather than create, build and benefit all.

Global Collaboration for Amazing Good – As technology provides solutions for knowledge and common processes to be centralized, languages to be auto translated, workflows to be shared, everyone to be connected to a common system in real time, and building upon each other’s efforts, our ability to multiply what we can do is dramatically increased. The more people coordinate their energies and resources in a collaborative way where everyone wins, the more we can solve amazing problems for the good of all.

Bottom-up vs Top Down – As you study ancient history, you find organizational structures that are designed for various purposes, some for control and others to empower. The first known implementation of the “top-down” pyramid organizational structure was implemented by Nimrod at the Tower of Babel. Nimrod applied it to religion and then to a kingdom form of government which became the first world power centered in Babylon. This top-down approach collected the power, profit and health of those underneath while promising protection and sometimes provision in exchange for being ruled. The person or group at the top of the pyramid wielded tremendous power in this system. A majority of organizational structures utilize this approach today and incorporate the concept into processes which have been automated into technology. Now, it’s simply “the way it’s done.”

We believe there is a better way of doing things. Our own country was founded by a rebellion from control and excessive taxation and creating a land of opportunity. Our country was a place where everyone had opportunity to succeed through hard work and excellence while looking out for their fellow man. An approach where people could win by utilizing the collective power of collaboration for mutual success. Unfortunately, this is not often practiced today. It is our intent to develop processes, technologies, support systems and organizational structures that will utilize this bottom-up empowering and collaborative concept.

Win-Win vs Win-Lose – In our society, we grow up constantly taught that there is a winner and loser in every situation, whether in sports, business, politics, relationships, war, success, or even relationships. Competition has been bred into us since childhood, not just to be our best, but to be the best, no matter who we step on to get there, with the end justifying the means. This certainly works in a top-down pyramid controlled system … for those at the top. But it is highly inefficient and unprofitable system of slow growth with little momentum. With so few winning and most losing, people are primarily working against one another, rather than collaborating and building upon each other’s efforts. Everyone is re-inventing the wheel, repeating what the other is doing. In contrast, when collaboration and planned coordination occurs, there is a system that propagates winning, more work, profit, momentum and success. There is synergy. When a business deal enables each person to succeed, everyone is loyal to it rather than working to get out of it; they don’t want to miss out on success. This is true with everything in life. When a task or relationship results in a win-win situation, more is accomplished.

With this focus, we are developing collaborative networks, new business models and new communities where the profit, power and the health of everyone is increased in order to empower thriving, not merely surviving.

How does this apply to mining? – Millennia Mining will be profitable and efficient in all we do, providing investors and bankers a wonderful return on their capital. We will strive to see that everyone who works on a Millennia mine has a chance for success and growth, opportunity for excellent training, is a highly skilled worker, implements safety standards, has good equipment and tools, and is paid well for their optimum performance. We will be sustainable and respectful of the land, utilizing everything we can for purpose with minimum waste. In conclusion, we want to see the area be better because we are a part of it and enjoy life and our fellow man as we do it.