Critical minerals
Copper, lithium, nickel, rare earths, and other materials upstream of the energy transition. We help you test whether a deposit, a processing concept, or a supply position is ready for the next step — and what remains unanswered.
Strata Global Advisory — Independent project advisory
From project opportunity to a plan you can act on.
Strata Global Advisory helps clients assess project readiness, understand the markets they're entering, and identify the partners they need to execute across borders.
Focus areas
Where we work
Critical minerals projects are our core work. Because those projects rarely stand alone, we also cover the adjacent areas investors need to understand before committing — mining, energy, and environmental performance.
Mining
Most critical minerals projects are mining projects, so we assess the fundamentals investors need to see: documentation, permitting, infrastructure, and commercial structure before capital is committed.
Energy
Power supply, fuel, and feedstock often decide whether a minerals project can actually run. We map what a project needs to be bankable — and who can supply it.
Environment and sustainability
Environmental and social performance shapes what gets permitted, financed, and built. For critical minerals projects, we help you read the requirements early and plan for them.
Transport, logistics, and trade infrastructure
A project is only as viable as its route to market.
Storage, transport, and access to buyers often decide whether a resource project is commercially viable — and how much value stays in the local economy. A mine with high-grade ore still loses money if concentrate sits in a warehouse because rail capacity is committed elsewhere, or if the nearest port cannot handle its shipment size.
Consider a copper project: trucking concentrate eight hundred kilometres to a coastal smelter may work at today's freight rates, but a nearer processing facility, better road access, or a shared storage hub can change the margin — and determine whether smelting jobs, supplier contracts, and tax revenue develop locally or offshore.
So we treat transport corridors, storage, ports, and offtake relationships as part of project assessment, not an afterthought. Where they connect to project delivery — for minerals, energy, or agricultural trade — we map them into the plan.
Services
Pillars of expertise
Our core work is in critical minerals projects across North America, Europe, and Africa. Three pillars cover the full span — from market entry to local value creation and sustainable sourcing.
From resource basins to ports and power corridors, we work wherever projects need to connect — across Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East.
Opportunity under developmentSee where we're already working with partners
Building a trade and logistics corridor across Mozambique, Zimbabwe, and Zambia
Strata Global Advisory is developing a regional corridor initiative to help agricultural and mineral producers in Mozambique, Zimbabwe, and Zambia reach more buyers. The work starts with identifying where gaps in transport, storage, and access to processing facilities make it harder for producers to get their goods to market.
One opportunity under review is a logistics hub in Zambia that could serve both agricultural and mineral supply chains. We are exploring how the hub could connect with projects and markets in Zimbabwe and Mozambique, and where investments in warehousing, transport, or local processing could lower costs and keep more of the value in the communities that produce the goods.
In development
Beyond advisory: a platform is taking shape
The same friction appears again and again: project information that is fragmented or out of date, counterparties that are hard to verify, and diligence that starts from zero every time. Governments, investors, and project developers keep running into these obstacles — in project assessment, market entry, logistics, energy supply, and environmental requirements.
We are building a platform to address those areas directly — so the questions that slow projects down today can be answered faster tomorrow. Advisory clients will see its tools first, and we will share more as it develops.
Bring us the opportunity.
Whether you hold an early-stage asset, an operating project, or a public mandate, tell us where things stand. We'll tell you what it would take to move forward.
Discuss a projectOr write to us directly: support@strataglobaladvisory.com