About Us

Universal Venture Holdings (Pty) Limited (UVH), a Pytheas company, is a company with limited liability incorporated in the Republic of South Africa. Established in year 2000, UVH, is a fully licensed trading company for diamonds and gold within South Africa.

Procuring rough diamonds from 37 African mines in Namibia, Angola, Mozambique, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ghana, Liberia, Burkina Faso, Benin, Mali, Sierra Leone and Guinea Conakry and with activities in sales, sorting, valuing and diamond beneficiation, UVH is focused on establishing itself as the world’s most effective distribution channel for rough diamonds.

Additionally, as the exclusive rights owner of THE DANCOR PROCESS™, the only truly green technology, the most cost effective and most commercially viable option in gold refining, UVH seeks to remap the world of African gold and the gold world in general through clean technology application, transparency and sustainability.

As a Pytheas company, with Pytheas' tremendous investment, capital raising and market research capabilities, UVH seeks to expand its activities in mining exploration and operation (i.e. diamond, gold and copper mining) as well as gold and silver refining.