Minerals strategy and advisory
The thinking layer of the minerals business.
The strategy and structuring arm of the group's minerals business: it decides which assets to develop, which partners to admit and how each transaction is built before anything goes to market.
Onyx Strategies Minerals
Where mineral value is actually decided
Most of a mining venture's value is settled before extraction begins: in which ground is held, on what tenure, with which partners, under what structure. In a frontier jurisdiction those decisions separate a stack of licences from an investable asset book.
Onyx Strategies exists because the group learned this at its own expense. The discipline it applies to the group's portfolio is the same discipline it offers asset owners and investors approaching the Mozambican minerals sector from outside.
Keeps the group's mineral portfolio investable. Every licence, partner and transaction passes through this desk before Onyx Minerals FZ-LLC takes it to an international counterparty.
How the division works
Portfolio before project
Every asset is judged by what it adds to the whole book: commodity balance, tenure mix, timing and counterparty appetite, not by its standalone story.
Diligence as a product
Licence files, cadastre records, site evidence and partner histories are assembled to the standard an institutional investor's counsel would demand.
Structure follows counterparty
Off-take, joint venture, prepayment or equity: the structure is chosen for the specific partner's risk position, never forced from a template.
What Onyx Strategies does
Portfolio strategy
Prioritisation and sequencing across licence positions, from near-term cargoes to long-term strategic assets.
Transaction structuring
Design of off-take, prepayment, joint-venture and equity structures aligned with counterparty risk.
Partner and asset diligence
Technical, commercial and reputational review of prospective partners, buyers and asset opportunities.
Commercial intelligence
Ongoing monitoring of critical-minerals demand, pricing and supply-chain policy relevant to the portfolio.
Who it serves
The group's own divisions
Every Onyx mineral transaction is structured here first; the group is the desk's most demanding client.
Asset owners
Licence holders seeking capital or partners, who need their asset presented to an institutional standard.
Incoming investors
Funds and family offices entering Mozambican minerals who need structured, diligenced access rather than introductions.
Working together
How an engagement starts
Portfolio review
A structured read of the asset, licence position or opportunity on the table.
Structuring mandate
A defined scope: diligence pack, transaction design or partner search.
Execution support
The desk stays through negotiation, documentation and close.