CRATON RESOURCES
INDEPENDENT MINING & METALLURGICAL ADVISORY
Three strategies. One integrated practice.
The gap between convention and opportunity
Craton Resources operates at the intersection of capital markets, commodity trading and fragmented industry consolidation. Each division is distinct. Together they form a practice built around a single thesis.
20+Years building network
SADCPrimary geography
3Integrated divisions
Strategy One · Advisory
The advisory gap: debt that banks will not build.
01

Deal Origination

Our commodity network surfaces opportunities that never reach a bank desk.

02

Facility Structuring

Built from the asset up, into bankable structures lenders can approve.

03

Capital Placement

Non-bank lenders, family offices and DFIs. We place what banks decline.

Asset-Backed Structuring: commodity stocks and receivables priced from the market up.
Strategy Two · Trading
Market fragmentation as structural opportunity.

Across SADC agricultural and commodity markets, supply is available but dispersed. Producers are fragmented, small-scale farmers, artisanal miners, dispersed co-operatives, and buyers are distant, institutional. The gap between them is a structural arbitrage that rewards whoever builds the aggregation layer.

Supply SideProducer aggregation — small-scale farmers, artisanal miners, co-operatives consolidated into bankable volume.
Demand SideBuyer access — institutional off-takers, processors, export buyers connected to verified SADC supply.
The EdgeTechnical pricing — polymetallic concentrates, off-spec materials, complex agri commodities.
The Corridor Model: fragmented supply + aggregation + verified demand = a corridor. We build the structure that neither side could create alone.
Strategy Three · Capital
Capital deployed where the market cannot reach.
01

Direct Investment

Our own capital into real assets and conviction positions.

02

Capital Management

Third-party capital from family offices wanting SADC exposure.

03

Deal Origination

Packaging SADC opportunities for PE funds and family offices with Africa mandates.

Focus: energy transition, food systems, industrial technology & SADC real assets.

The Integrated Thesis · why three divisions become one edge

Advisory feeds Trading — Borrowers who need working capital against commodity inventory become trading counterparties. The credit relationship and the trading relationship reinforce each other.

Trading feeds Advisory — Two decades of commodity trading surfaces credit opportunities before they become visible to financial advisors. The origination network is built on trading relationships, not database searches.

Both feed Capital — Deal flow from Advisory and trading positions from the Trading division create the investment pipeline for Capital. Third-party investors access a SADC origination capability they cannot build themselves.

Advisory origination & structuring
Trading aggregation & corridors
Capital deployment & management

Three strategies.
One conversation to start.

Advisory, Trading or Capital. The right division will respond.