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What we doFrom first engagement to full production.
Kukame's services are built around one outcome: getting your mining project funded and moving. Everything we do is in service of that.
Due diligence preparation
Before a project reaches a funder, it has to be ready for one. That readiness is built through a structured process covering every dimension a funder's risk team will examine. We compile the complete package, verified and complete.
A project that arrives with this package complete and verified is a project that gets considered. One that does not is one that gets returned.
Funding identification & structuring
The right instrument for your project.
Not every funding model suits every project. The stage of development, the commodity, the ownership structure, the BEE compliance level and the risk profile all determine which capital sources fit and how the deal should be structured. We identify the right instruments, prepare the submission in the funder's format, and manage the engagement through to a decision, across development finance institutions, private funders and project-specific structures.
Regulatory navigation
Compliance a funder can trust.
African mining is heavily regulated, and in South Africa the MPRDA, the Mining Charter 2018, NEMA and the Mine Health and Safety Act all apply. Funders check every one of them before committing capital. We prepare clients' projects to meet these requirements, and we identify and resolve compliance gaps before they become reasons for rejection.
Stakeholder & specialist assembly
The right people, at the right phase.
A mining project needs more than money. It needs geologists, engineers, environmental practitioners, legal advisors, operators and logistics specialists, each at the phase they are required. We identify and bring in the expertise a project needs, when it needs it, and keep everyone pointed at the same outcome.
End-to-end process management
One partner, first engagement to production.
We manage the full process: holding the NDA, managing the information intake, coordinating the due diligence, preparing the funder submission, negotiating terms, and staying engaged through to the point at which the project is operational and producing. Every role player, the rights holder, the funder, the operator, the specialist, has a position in the project, and our job is to protect every one of them.
Most conversations here begin with funding.
Tell us about the project and what it still needs. We will tell you straight what it would take to get it funded.
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