Project Development and Capital Readiness
Building the case behind the opportunity.
Triad helps junior and emerging miners turn incomplete mineral opportunities into structured technical and commercial propositions that can be assessed by management, partners, investors and funders.
Context
From mineral potential to investment case
A mining right, resource statement or commodity opportunity is not yet an investable project.
Capital providers require a credible understanding of the asset, resource, mining method, processing route, infrastructure, water, energy, environmental obligations, operating capability, market, logistics, capital requirements and financial risks.
Triad Mining & Logistics helps coordinate this information into a coherent business case.
Where detailed engineering or specialist studies are required, Triad works with Triad Consulting Engineers and other appropriately qualified technical partners.
Services
What we coordinate
- Opportunity Screening
- Initial assessment of the asset, available information, project stage, key gaps and potential development route.
- Project Definition
- Clarification of the proposed operation, product, production scale, processing route, infrastructure and delivery model.
- Technical Information Review
- Review of available geological, mining, metallurgical, infrastructure and environmental information.
- Production Scenarios
- Development of credible production, processing, recovery, yield and ramp-up assumptions.
- Capital-Cost Development
- Coordination of preliminary estimates for mining, processing, infrastructure, water, power, logistics and project-delivery requirements.
- Operating-Cost Development
- Assessment of mining, processing, labour, maintenance, consumables, water, energy, logistics and overhead costs.
- Market and Logistics Assessment
- Review of product specifications, potential customers, pricing assumptions, routes and delivery costs.
- Financial-Model Coordination
- Development or coordination of revenue, cost, cash-flow, funding and return scenarios.
- Sensitivity Analysis
- Testing how changes in price, production, recovery, yield, cost, capital and delays affect the opportunity.
- Implementation Planning
- Definition of development stages, responsibilities, timelines, approvals and mobilisation requirements.
- Risk Assessment
- Identification of technical, commercial, operational, legal, environmental, social, management and funding risks.
- Investment Documentation
- Coordination of business plans, investment memoranda, presentations, data rooms and supporting information.
- Capital Facilitation
- Support in identifying and approaching potentially suitable investors, lenders, development-finance institutions, strategic partners and offtakers.
Assessment
Funding-readiness assessment
The assessment may consider:
- Legal ownership and company structure
- Mining and prospecting rights
- Geological information
- Resource confidence
- Technical studies
- Mining method
- Processing route
- Metallurgical test work
- Product specifications
- Environmental approvals
- Water requirements
- Energy requirements
- Infrastructure access
- Logistics arrangements
- Market demand
- Offtake potential
- Capital requirements
- Working capital
- Operating capability
- Management experience
- Financial model
- Risk allocation
- Community and stakeholder context
- Implementation plan
Important
Capital disclaimer
Triad Mining & Logistics helps prepare credible mining opportunities for funding and may facilitate introductions to suitable capital providers, investors, offtakers and transaction partners.
Triad does not guarantee that funding will be secured.
Investment, credit, legal, tax and other regulated professional services are provided through appropriately qualified or authorised partners where required.