From a one-room office on East Cesar Chavez to three contract sites and a lab.
Hector Flores founded Golden Age Mining Group in April 2014 after eleven years buying precious metals for a Houston refining group. The thesis was simple: small refineries and jewelry manufacturers were underserved by the majors, and the majors weren’t coming back. Build a deliberate, mid-volume supplier with old-fashioned documentation, and the customers would find you.
The first year was 14.6 troy ounces of silver and a borrowed pickup. By 2017 we had our first standing doré contract; by 2019 we’d opened the assay lab on Rundberg Lane. Today the company runs three contract mining sites, an in-house lab, a logistics desk and a buyer-services team — all still in Austin, all still privately held.
We have no outside investors, no roll-up plans and no second line of business. What we do is buy, refine and ship metal. That’s the whole company.
