April 2024

We have begun to the process to update our website at last and will be conducting a major overhaul to the website and our back end systems to correct many of the problems which arose from issues with our hosting provider. We have finally completed all the immense and truly difficult work to build our own mint from scratch and will be commencing shortly with production, sales and shipment of all outstanding orders. Featured on the front page is the retired Wing Commander from 4 Wing at CFB Cold Lake, Col (ret’d) Jim Donihee, callsign: MuskOx presenting serial number 1 of our prototype RCAF Silver Maple to the Commanding General of the RCAF LGen Eric Kenny. We are profoundly honoured to have been asked to provide him along with Col Donihee and the Honourary Colonel of 410 Sqn, their own prototype RCAF Silver Maple. We ask that you please do not place any orders yet, nor use the the contact form on our website yet as they are still not functional. Our host did a major number on us while we were deep into the building of our new minting system and if you need to contact us, you may do so through facebook for now. We are working to get this website updated and migrated and will be operational shortly. Once we complete this final step, then our website will have a comprehensive explanation as to where we have been over these last few years, what we had to do in order to achieve this and the struggles, sacrifices, losses and small triumphs its taken for us to finally get here.

Stay tuned, stay inspired. The update is coming quick.

Sincerely,

Joseph Green

April 2023 Update

Hello Everyone!

First, please accept my personal apology for the length of time since our last update. You would not believe what we have gone through in order to reach this point. I will go further into detail in a future post, but here is a breakdown to explain where we are at. We are moving into a new and larger studio. We have secured funding and have purchased a brand new, world class, high speed minting system which will be here in about a month or so. When everything is setup and dialed in, we will be able to melt, form, roll, strike blanks, strike proof medallion coins at a maximum throughput at approximately 24 000 coins per day. We have been blessed with having literally the finest backers and patient collectors in the world. To all of you, thank you. Truly. Now, the new studio is amazing, we had to essentially renovate a large garage to meet our needs, well I had to. The process is ongoing. Having to dismantle the current setup has been a monsterous undertaking and its still not over. The renovations have been underway for the past few months, the move of our gear has taken multiple trips as having to figure out the layout of how the new space will function the way we need is a time consuming undertaking, but we are almost there. Our 400T press which was damaged has taken months to repair and is ready for testing once all the electrical has been run for it and the new system slated to arrive. We have so much…so much to move, take great care to move everything as to not damage it and set everything up again. As a one man operation, its painfully time consuming. However its almost there.

Now, here is my request for right now. Please hold off on ordering anything for the time being as the final stage of this epic move and updated capability for Beaverworks Mint is to do a comprehensive, top to bottom renovation of our website and make some much needed changes, update our security, shopping cart and payment processing as PayPal has been giving us some issues. For that, we don’t know why, but for now, please hold off until I give the all clear please. That update will happen as soon as possible and will be an absolute joy to do as it will be the capstone on this epic new chapter for us. Once we have our new minting system installed and operational, we plan on sprinting to the finish line of completing the 100 Collection and embarking on new and exciting new designs. We are also beyond excited to finally show off the packaging for the Golden Arrow which has taken years of effort. It will be our finest work ever produced.

We have also not advertised over the last few years because when the decision was made to build our own mint from the ground up, it was a decision made because we felt that we had no other choice as no other company could either deliver on our quality standards we have established, meet our scheduling requirements or something else. This work is not easy…NOT EASY AT ALL….man…..not easy….its been the absolute hardest chapter of my life and with the loss of my father last year, it was a painful blow as I am sure all of you can imagine. However, we are almost there. I will post pictures of our new studio layout, our new equipment and everything once we are good to go. Eventually once we feel we are able, we will also be able to offer private minting services to groups if they are interested. So stay tuned. Once again, I apologize for the length of time this update has taken, working 18 hours a day, 7 days a week towards this, I had no time at all up to make any website updates. I apologize for the Payment Processing issue, I will solve that so it will be an amazing experience so please just hold off for now until we are ready if you don’t mind. I don’t want to accept any more orders until we are able to be able to ship them out on the same day or within 24 hours. Having to request people to wait for an unreasonable amount of time is just not cool in my books. However, there are no words to convey how excited I am to be almost ready to begin using a world class minting system and having a dialed, calibrated and world class system.

I will post pictures and will be making more routine update postings as time goes on and we spin this up properly. So stay inspired, stay tuned and I look forward to providing the quality of service and product you have all come to expect from Beaverworks. To all of our collectors, thank you for your immense patience. Every single order will be filled that is on back order and will be shipped out as quickly as we can possibly turn it out once our system is operational. Honestly, you people are truly amazing. I cannot even begin to convey how much respect, love and awe I have for all those who have believed in me, us and this. Truly. I’m trying as hard as I can, I’m committed, dedicated, driven and slowly its all coming together….we are almost there and once we are, we will never again ever, and I mean EVER have the rug pulled out from us ever again like it was. Ever. That was just totally not cool. Oh well….well now we have our own mint, so onward and upwards! YAY!

Thank you again, Stay tuned and I will post again very soon.

Very sincerely and humbly,

Joseph

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What an Undertaking!!

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July 2021 Update

Hi everyone! We have been absolutely focused on acquiring all the tooling and fabricating capability to resume minting and we are almost finished. 16 hours a day, 7 days a week…we are almost there. I will post a more comprehensive update shortly. All outstanding orders will be filled and shipped along with some compensation to everyone once we are back up, then we will resume the completion of the 100 Collection and will be focused on fabricating and shipping out our Golden Arrows first. I apologize for the long overdue delay…truly. Its been an exhausting undertaking and we are almost there. Once we cross that point, you watch how fast we resume.

Stay tuned for a more comprehensive update shortly.

Sincerely,

Joseph

 

November 1, 2019

Hi everyone! Please accept my apology for this long overdue update. Here is what happened. Earlier this summer, we were forced to move our entire studio on only 2 weeks notice as our landlord was heading into foreclosure and it caught us completely off guard. All the renovations, work, time, effort, energy, love, hope and optimism that was invested into this studio, was like a rug that was pulled out from under us. We had to not only pack 2 large spaces up but also had to find a suitable location for us to maintain operations. After leaving us scrambling, we finally found a temporary location to operate from until we secure a more long term solution. I cannot begin to convey the level of extreme exhaustion this process has incurred as not only did the entire studio needed to be moved, but the temporary space needed to be renovated. It is only now that things are beginning to come back “online” so to speak. At present, we are in the process of securing more tooling so we can unilaterally produce our work with little to no down time we have experienced thus far. Due to this move, I have all but halted all marketing and sales until everything is back to normal so I can facilitate the high speed turn around time we have worked tirelessly to establish. We look forward to getting things back to normal so we can meet our target of completing this objective of the 100 collection by 2024. During this process, you may still continue to order coins and they will be shipped within 48 hours. The Century Coin is in development and we are examining options at this time to act as a stop gap measure until our facilities are operational. We have as you can see, have produced our first Gold issue and once things get back to normal operations, we will be able to offer these as we have temporarily paused taking orders for now. At present, only two have been manufactured and will be shipped in short order.

Its been a very exhausting, unexpected and difficult chapter we had to contend with, but we are slowly driving through. Stay tuned for more information. We are excited and inspired as this was in hindsight, a step we needed to take to ensure our long term prosperity. If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to contact us. Once the Century coin is finished, we will include at no extra charge, a complimentary Silver Dart coin to compensate all collectors for this unreasonable delay.

Sincerely,

Joseph Green

Beaverworks Mint

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We are exceptionally proud and honoured to announce that we have signed an agreement with British Columbia based Kis Capital to enable every collector who would like to purchase our first Gold Issue dedicated to the Avro Arrow, the opportunity to finance the purchase. This company is absolutely amazing and when we applied for their service, they had us activated faster than we could update the website. They provide a wonderful payment arrangement for collectors with no penalties for early repayment and instant approval! In honour of the last Avro Arrow, RL-206, no more than 206 of these will ever be made. With the exception of serial numbers RL-200 – RL-206, each package will be custom painted according to your creative wishes and you may include a personalised message within the display box made from Birds Eye Maple sourced from Northern Ontario. Serials RL-200 – RL-206, will have metal we have from the Avro Arrow program for the box top, so here is your chance to own a piece of this legendary aircraft program.

We are exceptionally honoured to announce that we have secured the funding we need in order to commence with the production of our first gold issue:The Golden Arrow! This unique, 2.01 Troy Oz. of .9999 Fine Gold, Select Platinum Plate, Full Colour Printing, Serial Edge Marks will set the global standard in immaculate minting quality.

The Golden Arrow represents the finest level of minting accomplishments possible and we are proud to announce our first coin will be shipping out to our first collector by June 1, 2019 or sooner. This startup tooling process is a very expensive undertaking and all production will be on a per-order basis until we can generate enough revenue to build up inventory to provide an immediate delivery. This coin comes with custom, hand crafted packaging with options for our collectors to select the exterior and interior colours and collectors may submit a message and photograph if they wish to have it encased within the packaging so that customers may have their words escort their Golden Arrow as it flies through the blue skies of time as it gets passed down from generation to generation.

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