Transaction structuring · 15 January 2025
Building aligned economics in mining JVs
When incentives reflect geology, operations and community outcomes, partnerships endure through cycles.
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- The problem with a flat equity split. A 50/50 JV looks fair at signing and becomes unfair the moment one party carries more execution risk than the other.
- Mechanisms that stay aligned through the cycle. Earn-in tranches tied to milestones, diluted funding formulas, and operator performance hurdles.
- Community outcomes as a commercial term, not a cost line. Why an agreement that only satisfies the JV partners is the one most likely to be renegotiated.
- Downside protection. What to put in writing before the market turns, because that is when it will be tested.
Regulatory strategy · 2 February 2025
Permitting pathways: turning ESIA into advantage
Approvals are not hurdles but design constraints. Integrating permitting early creates resilient project plans that attract capital.
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- Treat the ESIA as a design document. The scoping study is the cheapest place to remove an approval risk, and the only place it is genuinely free.
- Map the pathway before the drill programme, not after. Sequencing permits against the exploration calendar is what stops a resource from sitting idle waiting on a consent.
- Gap closure as a schedule item. Why ESIA gap registers fail — they are written as findings rather than as tasks with owners and dates.
- Why this attracts capital. Financiers price permitting uncertainty. A project that can demonstrate a mapped, sequenced pathway carries a lower risk premium than one that cannot.
Exploration & drilling · Suggested topic
QA/QC that survives a resource audit
Most database problems are created before the first assay is returned, and discovered during the resource estimate — when fixing them is most expensive.
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