Economic due diligence, licensing and subsoil code navigation, offtake structuring, and investor coordination for mining and mineral resource projects across Central Asia, Southern Europe, and EMEA.
Continuous involvement in the mining and mineral resource lifecycle — from extraction and beneficiation through smelting, refining, and global distribution.
Base metals, critical and rare metals, precious metals, industrial minerals, EV battery metals, and ferroalloys. Primary extraction and secondary recovery.
Economic due diligence, licensing, fund formation, offtake contracts, multimodal logistics, and trade finance — structured end-to-end under Swiss law.
Mandate experience across Central Asia, CIS, Southern Europe, and EMEA. Working knowledge of Kazakhstan Subsoil Code, EU CRM Act, and EITI frameworks.
MSE provides mandate-based execution across the full mining project lifecycle — from initial deposit assessment through operational offtake. All engagements are structured under Swiss law.
Independent commercial assessment of mining assets: resource valuation, capex/opex modelling, DCF/IRR analysis, sensitivity scenarios, and investor-grade technical memoranda. Evaluation scoped to economic viability — complementing geological reports (JORC, NI 43-101, KAZRC) with commercial execution analysis.
Structuring and advisory on mineral rights acquisition, licence transfers, and regulatory approvals in complex jurisdictions. Working knowledge of Kazakhstan Subsoil and Subsoil Use Code, CIS mineral legislation, and EU permitting frameworks. Power-of-attorney and sub-agent structures for cross-border mandate execution.
Swiss-law investment structures for mining project capitalisation. SPV formation, governance frameworks, anti-dilution and anti-removal protections, retainer and success-fee architectures. Preparation of investor materials, fund term sheets, and co-investment structures aligned to institutional requirements.
Negotiation and structuring of binding and indicative offtake agreements for base metals, critical minerals, and industrial mineral products. Benchmark pricing (LME, CRU, Fastmarkets), volume-price ladders, quality adjustment mechanisms, and force majeure frameworks.
Multimodal logistics architecture from mine gate to end consumer. Rail, road, river, deep-sea, and transshipment optimisation. Hub design, container vs. break-bulk analysis, terminal selection, and Incoterms structuring. Proven track record across EMEA, Central Asia, and trans-continental corridors.
Advisory on EU Critical Raw Materials Act compliance, strategic mineral classification, and supply security positioning. Feasibility assessment for extraction of gallium, scandium, vanadium, REE, and other critical elements from primary ores and industrial residues (bauxite residue, metallurgical slags, tailings).
Every mineral asset moves along a value-and-de-risking curve from exploration to production. The stretch between a completed study and secured financing is where most projects stall. Select a stage to see MSE’s role, capital intensity, and risk profile.
Swiss-law SPV and fund architecture, governance, anti-dilution and anti-removal protections, and investor coordination. This is the capital gap where most projects stall, and MSE’s core mandate.
MSE's mining advisory covers the commodity groups where cross-border execution, regulatory navigation, and supply chain structuring create the highest mandate complexity.
Primary aluminium, copper, zinc, lead. LME-benchmarked pricing. Smelter-grade concentrates and refined metal. Premium structures and regional arbitrage.
Gallium, scandium, vanadium, tungsten, bismuth, REE. EU CRM Act strategic list alignment. Primary extraction and secondary recovery from industrial residues.
Gold, silver. Deposit evaluation, refinery relationships, LBMA compliance pathways. Responsible sourcing documentation and chain-of-custody structuring.
Cement raw materials, aggregates, bentonite, zeolite, micropowders. Quarry and open-pit operations. EU market access, quality certification, logistics optimisation.
Lithium, cobalt, nickel. Upstream investment coordination and offtake structuring for battery manufacturing supply chains. EU Battery Regulation alignment.
Ferrochrome, ferromanganese, ferrosilicon. Producer relationships, index-based pricing, stainless and specialty steel end-market placement.
An interactive map of where the world's mineral reserves sit. Select a commodity element to see its reserve distribution by country - contained-metal tonnage, each country's share, and typical grade in ore. Where the survey publishes it, the broader identified resource is shown as the wider undeveloped potential, and every card carries a Central Asia lens - the region where MSE's network runs deepest. Central Asia alone holds an estimated 38.6% of world manganese-ore reserves, around 30% of chromium, 20% of lead, and 12.6% of zinc, alongside world-class undeveloped tungsten, tin, rare-earth, antimony, and silver deposits. The same concentration that defines geological endowment defines supply-chain dependency, sanctions exposure, and offtake leverage - the variables MSE structures mandates around.
Select a highlighted element - its reserve profile opens in a panel.
MSE focuses on jurisdictions where regulatory complexity, investor access barriers, and cross-border logistics create a structural need for Swiss-based mandate execution.
Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan. Subsoil code expertise, local licensing frameworks, international approval timelines, fund structuring compliant with local and Swiss law. Regional analysis: Tajikistan →
Armenia, Georgia. Mineral code navigation, EU association agreement alignment (DCFTA), cross-border mandate structuring from Switzerland.
Italy, Sardinia, Western Balkans. Industrial mineral M&A, critical mineral extraction feasibility, EU permitting and environmental compliance frameworks.
Selective engagement in resource-rich jurisdictions where Swiss-law structuring, investor coordination, and offtake execution add measurable value.
Licence acquisition, transfer, and reactivation procedures. Government priority rights, local content requirements, environmental obligations. Strategic deposit classification and international investor approval timelines.
Investment-agreement tax and customs exemptions, a profit-tax holiday for new production, 50% priority-sector relief (mineral extraction included) and duty-free Free Economic Zones — set against a framework with no codified mining code: a Law on Subsoil, a Production Sharing regime for high-cost and remote deposits (compensation output capped at 70%), the Water Code governing process-water, tailings and effluent permits, and a PPP regime that expressly excludes subsoil rights. Jurisdiction note: Tajikistan →
Strategic and critical mineral lists. Benchmarks for domestic extraction, processing, and recycling. Diversification obligations and strategic project designation. Supply security reporting requirements.
Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative compliance. LBMA Responsible Gold Guidance. OECD Due Diligence Guidance for Responsible Supply Chains of Minerals from Conflict-Affected Areas.
Commercial evaluation overlay on geological resource and reserve reports. MSE does not produce geological estimates but structures economic analysis, investor materials, and offtake frameworks anchored to compliant technical reports.
Initial enquiries are handled directly by the Managing Director. All discussions are treated as confidential.
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