Expertise
Three sectors, one corridor
Mining, infrastructure and energy are not three separate businesses. On the West Africa ↔ World corridor they are three links in the same value chain, appraised by the same teams and arbitrated by the same capital. AFROPORTUNITY works across all three, always under written mandate and NCNDA.
Guinea · Senegal · Côte d’Ivoire · Burkina Faso ↔ International markets
Thesis
Why these three sectors are handled together
A mining asset creates no value on its own. It depends on the power that runs it and on the infrastructure that gets it out. International counterparties assess that full chain: we prepare files the same way.
A resource is only worth what can be shipped
A deposit with no haul road, no rail and no terminal remains a theoretical asset. Between two neighbouring licences, geology alone rarely decides the outcome: bankability is settled by the distance to an export point and by the quality of the logistics chain.
Power determines the business case
A site consumes before it produces. Access to stable electricity, at a controlled cost and over a contracted term, decides whether an operation is viable — and therefore whether it can raise capital.
International capital arbitrates across all three
Investors, EPC contractors, traders and family offices worldwide compare mining, infrastructure and energy in the same committees. Their point of entry has to be single, documented and enforceable.
3
sectors covered
5
offices on the corridor
24 months
of contractual tail period
100%
of files under mandate and NCNDA
The three practices
What we handle, sector by sector
Each sector has its own counterparties, its own documents and its own timeline. The pages below set out the exact scope of our work, the types of file we receive and the profiles we approach.
AFP // MINING
Mining
Licence holders, junior miners and local groups looking for a technical partner, an offtaker or an investor. We verify the title before making any introduction.
- Exploration licences and mining licences
- Technical partners and mining operators
- Offtake agreements and marketing
- Mining contracting and site services
AFP // INFRA
Infrastructure
The infrastructure that decides whether resources can be exported: bulk terminals, access roads, dedicated rail lines, and the contractors able to build them.
- Ports and bulk minerals logistics
- Roads, mine haul roads and railways
- EPC contracts and turnkey packages
- Project finance and concession structures
AFP // ENERGY
Energy
Power generation and supply for remote industrial and mining sites, IPP structures and power purchase agreements, equipment and maintenance.
- Ground-mounted solar, hybridisation and storage
- Hydropower and rehabilitation of existing works
- Captive power supply to mining sites
- IPP and PPA structures, equipment and O&M
Integration
Mine, power, logistics: a single equation
Most of the files we receive stall on one missing link. We work up the entire chain before presenting anything to a counterparty: that is what makes a file legible to an investment committee.
- 01
Resource
Mining title, perimeter, work completed, qualified resource.
- 02
Power
Site power supply, hybridisation, power purchase agreement.
- 03
Export
Haul road, rail, storage, terminal and ship loading.
- 04
Market
Offtake, capital, contractors and long-term operators.
- A bauxite licence gains its value from an export plan, not from a geological report alone.
- A captive power plant serving a mine is only financed against a power purchase agreement with a solid buyer.
- A bulk terminal is only built once the mining volumes have been contracted upstream.
- An EPC contractor only commits its teams to a project whose land tenure, permits and schedule are clear.
Scope
What we do, and what we do not do
The corridor is crowded with unmandated intermediaries circulating files with no verified title and no confidentiality agreement. Our scope is written down, limited and enforceable.
Our role
- Identify and qualify counterparties on both sides of the corridor.
- Formalise the relationship before any disclosure: written mandate, NCNDA, KYC on all parties.
- Work up the file and produce an anonymised version that can be taken to committee.
- Support the discussions through to signature, then throughout the 24-month tail period.
Outside our scope
- We are not an investment adviser, a financial institution or a mining operator.
- We guarantee no return and present no projection as a settled outcome.
- We circulate no file before the NCNDA is signed and the counterparty verified.
- We never deal with government departments in place of the project sponsor.
Next step
A project to place, or a search mandate to award
Describe the file in a few lines: sector, status of the licence or the project, counterparty sought. No documents are exchanged before a written mandate and an NCNDA are in place.
Under written mandate and NCNDA, without exception
No company name, no precise location and no document circulates before the NCNDA is signed and the counterparty verified. That is the difference between structured deal origination and an opportunistic introduction.
- NCNDA as standard
- KYC on all parties
- Anti-corruption stance