AquaVolt Capital · Critical Minerals Desk

The capital desk for the infrastructure a mine runs on.

Africa holds the copper, lithium, graphite, rare earths and manganese the energy transition depends on. Project after project stalls on the same thing — the power, grid, rail, port and water infrastructure a mine needs but cannot carry alone. We arrange and structure the blended finance that closes that gap and walks it to financial close.

Capital is provided by our institutional financing partners, development banks and export-credit agencies. AquaVolt originates, structures and arranges — it does not lend or invest from its own balance sheet.

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How we work

Financing the minerals the transition runs on.

We work between mine sponsors, state co-owners and the financiers who fund enabling infrastructure — arranging the structure that makes a project bankable without loading the power, rail, port or water onto the sponsor's or the sovereign's balance sheet.

01

Structure the stack

We assemble bankable capital stacks across sponsor equity, ECA-backed equipment finance, DFI-concessional and climate capital, and senior debt — shaped to the project, not off a shelf.

02

Match the financiers

We map each enabling-infrastructure gap to the development, export-credit and climate financiers most likely to fund it, and coordinate them into a single, fundable structure.

03

Walk it to close

We coordinate sponsors, financiers and public co-owners from first mandate to financial close — keeping the enabling infrastructure off the sponsor's and the sovereign's balance sheet.

We don't mine, and we don't lend our own book. We arrange the capital that makes a mine's enabling infrastructure bankable — and route contract-backed, ESG-aligned exposure to the financiers who fund it.

Who we structure for

Mine sponsors · State co-owners & national mining companies · DFIs & export-credit agencies · Offtakers & strategic investors

Commodities we cover

CopperLithiumGraphiteRare earths ManganeseBauxite & aluminaNickel CobaltIron ore

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Structured-finance conversations are held privately, with professional and institutional counterparties only. Tell us about the project and the enabling-infrastructure gap, and we'll come back on how a bankable structure could be shaped.