FINANCE AND INVESTMENT
Power Metal Resources, listed in London, is a project incubator that targets 12 commodities across four continents.
Sean Wade, CEO of Power Metal Resources, the cornerstone investor in Minestarters.
Minestarters founder, Marcel Nally, led Moxico Resources to a billion-dollar valuation.
How tokenisation could unlock billions for early- stage mining Over $200 billion is invested in mining each year, but less than 2% of that reaches early-stage exploration projects, despite this being the phase that potentially offers the greatest return on investment. This is partially an issue of access, with junior explorers increasingly turning to royalties, streaming rights and off-take partnerships in the absence of traditional financing options like equity markets, leaving capital trapped in slow, illiquid channels. T hese alternatives, although viable, are not particularly accessible to a wide base of investors and are often
By acquiring Minestarters tokens, investors will be able to obtain access to an institutionally curated portfolio of projects. As these projects advance, the Minestarters platform captures and distributes their real-world value growth, directing essential funding to a pipeline of prospective assets not limited by commodity or jurisdiction. This is known as Real-World Asset (RWA) tokenisation, linking digital liquidity directly to tangible mining assets. Funds are collected in vaults on the Minestarters platform, each vault containing a diversified ‘basket’ of exploration and development investment opportunities. If the vault target capital raise is achieved by the cut-off date, the funds are off-ramped and deployed by a custodian entity into the opportunities detailed in the vault. Investors receive vault tokens representing proportional economic rights in each basket. All proceeds: royalties, revenue share, exits, or other cash flows, are routed through a Revenue Participation Agreement (RPA) and distributed on-chain back to the vault. Put simply, the vault token price increases with the value of
reserved for large institutions and specialist funds, leaving the industry with a fundamental problem. Demand for critical minerals is expected to more than double by 2030, requiring a substantial number of new mines to come into production across commodities, and yet, in 2024, capital raised by junior and intermediate miners dropped to its lowest point in five years, according to BDO. Therefore, the big question is how can the industry close this deficit whilst funds for finding the next major deposit are shrinking? That’s where a new, innovative startup is stepping in with a potentially game changing solution. Minestarters, and cornerstone investor Power Metal Resources, are bringing decentralised finance to the mining industry with an institutional-grade, blockchain-enabled tokenisation platform that provides an efficient and transparent funding model for natural resources exploration and development, bridging the gap to capital.
20 MODERN MINING www.modernminingmagazine.co.za | March 2026
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