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We Grow Metal

Biological infrastructure for critical metal extraction. Battery-grade nickel, harvested at best-in-class costs.

Inside the team replacing the excavator with plants, and the biotech built to be the backbone for the next century of critical metal extraction.

Genomines field

Genomines cultivates “metal farms” that secure the world’s most critical metal supply chains. Our plants extract nickel directly from low-grade, underutilized soils, transforming idle lands into high-yield, profitable assets.

At scale.

Low-cost farming replacing the heavy-machinery of traditional industry. Our extraction sites produce nickel at first-quartile cash costs and with significantly less capex.

Above the ground.

Our proprietary hyperaccumulator crops are genetically enhanced to do one job exceptionally well: pull nickel out of the soil.

Under the ground.

The root system works as an amplified vacuum, reaching deep into soils to draw critical metals into the plant’s biomass.

More than profit.
More than sustainability.
Systemic Return.

Every ton of nickel we produce compounds value across three dimensions: financial return, stable supply chains, and planetary health.

-40%

Lower cash cost per ton of Nickel equivalent versus traditional extraction. Legacy extraction requires fleets of heavy extractors, crushers, and grinding equipment to produce the same outcome that our plants achieve naturally. 

70 Million +

Potential new tons of nickel per year, from secure domestic supply. A sovereign asset that breaks reliance on foreign monopolies, built entirely on predictable agricultural OpEx.

- 45 tons

CO2 equivalent avoided per ton of nickel produced vs. traditional laterite extraction. We extract high-grade metal from polluted lands and rehabilitate the soil as a natural byproduct of the operation itself. 

"We are not activists; we are building an industry. Our priority is to produce the most competitive nickel on the market."
Fabien Koutchekian - Co-Founder and CEO
Our A-Team. Genomines is built from a unique mix of plant geneticists, agricultural operators, and mining veterans. We bridge deep scientific expertise with practical, operational playbooks.
Genomines team

We are realist-optimists who see "impossible" as an engineering problem with a deadline, we've already doubled nickel yields, hit battery-grade purity, and broken ground on our first commercial farm in South Africa.

Battery-grade nickel sulphate hexahydrate crystals produced from Genomines' hyperaccumulator plants
Genomines researcher tending to flowering hyperaccumulator plants in the greenhouse
Farm worker smiling while harvesting hyperaccumulator biomass in the field
Hyperaccumulator plants in bloom under shade netting
Genomines scientist inspecting tissue-cultured hyperaccumulator plantlets in the lab
Genomines team gathered for an evening celebration
Two Genomines team members sharing a celebration at the office
Young hyperaccumulator plant emerging from the soil in the field
Members of the Genomines team standing together at the office
Field of hyperaccumulator plants in bloom with mountains in the background
Battery-grade nickel sulphate hexahydrate crystals produced from Genomines' hyperaccumulator plants
Genomines researcher tending to flowering hyperaccumulator plants in the greenhouse
Farm worker smiling while harvesting hyperaccumulator biomass in the field
Hyperaccumulator plants in bloom under shade netting
Genomines scientist inspecting tissue-cultured hyperaccumulator plantlets in the lab
Genomines team gathered for an evening celebration
Two Genomines team members sharing a celebration at the office
Young hyperaccumulator plant emerging from the soil in the field
Members of the Genomines team standing together at the office
Field of hyperaccumulator plants in bloom with mountains in the background
Battery-grade nickel sulphate hexahydrate crystals produced from Genomines' hyperaccumulator plants
Genomines researcher tending to flowering hyperaccumulator plants in the greenhouse
Farm worker smiling while harvesting hyperaccumulator biomass in the field
Hyperaccumulator plants in bloom under shade netting
Genomines scientist inspecting tissue-cultured hyperaccumulator plantlets in the lab
Genomines team gathered for an evening celebration
Two Genomines team members sharing a celebration at the office
Young hyperaccumulator plant emerging from the soil in the field
Members of the Genomines team standing together at the office
Field of hyperaccumulator plants in bloom with mountains in the background