Artisanal Formalization
ORION™, our platform and strategy for formalizing artisanal and small-scale miners: creating jobs, increasing formal production, improving safety, and industry training and education.
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Who We Are
A private natural resources development firm
Alnitak Resources is a private natural resources development firm that architects the financial, legal and operational infrastructure required to bring mineral deposits into responsible, financeable production. We work where private capital and conventional project finance have historically struggled: at the formalization of artisanal and small-scale mining, and at the sovereign scale required to develop deposits in alignment with host-nation priorities, development finance standards and institutional capital underwriting requirements.
Our platforms are designed to bring together mining and processing operations, sovereign-aligned partnership structures, host-country participation, and Mintaka ERP™, our proprietary environmental, social and governance (ESG) and chain-of-custody data platform. Our focus is East Africa.
We believe responsible operators working in genuine partnership with host nations and aligned capital should be the ones developing the region's mineral deposits.
Our Approach
Three capabilities. One integrated platform.
Sovereign-Aligned Platforms
Natural resource platforms structured in close partnership with host-nation governments, designed to advance national industrialization while satisfying institutional underwriting standards.
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Legal, financial and operational architecture designed to advance undercapitalized, technically proven deposits from stalled to financeable, financed and operational.
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Leadership
Rodney Thompson
Chief Operating Officer & Director, Alnitak Resources International Corporation
Audrey Mpendwa Cissé
Chief Communications Officer & Director, Alnitak Resources International Corporation
Philosophy
Three principles anchor our work
The first is that capital must be aligned. We work only with capital partners whose return horizons, risk frameworks, and stewardship expectations match the multi-decade nature of natural resource platforms. Misaligned capital does not survive contact with sovereign-scale development.
The second is that operations must be sovereign. The firms that endure in this sector are those that operate as genuine partners to host nations, not as extractive counterparties. We build platforms designed to advance national industrial strategy alongside investor returns.
The third is that stewardship is structural. ESG performance is not a marketing position or a corporate social responsibility line item. It is the precondition for sovereign trust, institutional capital access and community partnership. It is designed into operating agreements and measured through Mintaka ERP.
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Sovereign Partners
For host-nation governments, sovereign wealth principals, central banks and senior officials considering a platform partnership.
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Accredited investor pathway for sovereign wealth, development finance institutions, pension funds, family offices and institutional asset managers.
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For development finance institutions, export credit agencies and standard-setting bodies. Platforms are structured to meet the eligibility requirements of multilateral and bilateral development finance.
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