Activities
Developing Africa’s Minerals for Sustainable Growth
We originate. We structure. We arrange.
What we do
01
Identify Projects
We identify strategic mineral deposits with strong development potential, using geological first principles to distinguish promising opportunities.
02
Source Funds
We secure strategic funding for mineral projects across exploration, mining, and beneficiation phases.
03
Offtake Agreements/Trade Finance
We provide tailored offtake and trade finance solutions that empower businesses to optimize cash flow, mitigate risk, and accelerate growth in global mineral resources markets.
Identify Projects
- Project Goals: Identify mineral projects, conduct exploration, estimate resources, and assess economic potential.
- Project Activities: Local-scale geophysical and geological exploration, resource estimation, economic potential assessment, and community engagement.
- Project Outcomes: Enhanced project value, industry attraction, growth, and a sustainable model for mineral resources in developing countries.
Offtake Agreements/Trade Finance
- Forfaiting Process: Northfields Strategic Metals structures commodity offtake agreements and arranges non-recourse financing against eligible post-shipment receivables, ensuring producers are paid upon shipment.
- Forfaiting Benefits: Producers receive immediate cash, eliminating buyer payment risk, while the forfaiter assumes the risk for a fixed discount rate.
- Forfaiting Applicability: Applies to completed sales with verified documents and enforceable payment obligations, not pre-production or exploration risk.