AquaVolt Capital | Critical Minerals Desk
The capital desk for the infrastructure a mine runs on.
We help mine sponsors structure and arrange financing for the power, water, logistics and other enabling infrastructure their projects require, working with suitable financing and delivery partners.
Africa holds the copper, lithium, graphite, rare earths and manganese the energy transition depends on. Projects stall on the power, grid, rail, port and water a mine needs but cannot carry alone.
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.
Discuss an infrastructure projectHow we workWhy the desk
Four reasons sponsors bring us the infrastructure gap
We work between mine sponsors, state co-owners and the financiers who fund enabling infrastructure.
Access suitable financing partners
We identify relevant institutional, development-bank, export-credit and equipment-finance routes for each infrastructure need.
Reduce pressure on sponsor capital
We explore structures that fund enabling infrastructure alongside the mine's core development needs.
Coordinate a complex transaction
We align sponsors, technical partners and financiers around one coherent financing process.
Advance toward financial close
We establish the information, structure and next steps required to move a viable project forward.
Accounting treatment, any credit support and any effect on a sponsor's or sovereign's balance sheet depend on the actual structure and on professional assessment.
Scope
What we arrange, and what you receive
Infrastructure we cover
- Power and grid connections
- Water supply, treatment and recycling
- Rail, port and logistics
- Relevant processing infrastructure
What you receive
- A proposed financing pathway
- The information requirements financiers will ask for
- An indicative transaction structure
- Coordinated financier engagement, within the agreed mandate
AquaVolt arranges and coordinates. Design and construction are delivered by suitable technical and delivery partners. Initial conversations are exploratory; advisory work is scoped under an agreed mandate.
How it works
Three steps from gap to close
Connections to power, water and transport appear first, then the financing relationships that could fund them.
Illustrative concept only. It does not show a funded or completed project.
Assess the gap
Assess the infrastructure gap and the funding requirement.
Structure and engage
Structure the capital stack and engage suitable financiers.
Coordinate to close
Coordinate due diligence, negotiation and progress toward close.
Explainer
How infrastructure finance reaches a mine
How infrastructure finance reaches a mine
Explainer video in productionSuitable enquiries
Who this is for, and what to tell us first
Who we structure for
Mine sponsors | State co-owners and national mining companies | DFIs and export-credit agencies | Offtakers and strategic investors
Commodities we cover
Helpful to include in a first note
- Project, location and commodity
- Mine stage and the infrastructure gap
- Indicative funding requirement
- Sponsors and any state co-owners
- Timing, and any technical studies available
Structured-finance conversations are held privately, with professional and institutional counterparties only.
Contact
Speak to the desk
Tell us about the project and the enabling-infrastructure gap, and we will come back on how a bankable structure could be shaped.
Critical Minerals Desk
desk@aquavoltcapital.com