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Kivora: DRC Copperbelt Metals Exploration Platform
Kivora is being built with FG Capital Advisors as an exploration platform focused on the DRC Copperbelt. We acquire early-stage licenses where prior programs stalled due to capital constraints, re-scope the work to what is technically and commercially defensible, then run a professional gated exploration program designed to reach a strategic monetization outcome.
We are initiating a USD 25M raise (tickets USD 250K to USD 5M) to fund the initial license portfolio and the first phase exploration program. The platform is designed to scale toward a USD 100M asset base through disciplined license acquisition, staged technical de-risking, and monetization execution.
If you are open, we can share a teaser and technical summary first, then provide the full information memorandum under NDA.
Email Us To Request The TeaserMetals Focus
- Copper: primary value driver across Copperbelt-style systems.
- Cobalt: assessed where naturally associated with copper mineralization.
- Lithium: screened where evidence supports a defensible district thesis.
- Tin And Additional Metals: assessed where geology supports a financeable work program.
What We Acquire
- Early-stage licenses with a clean chain of title and a credible geological rationale.
- Projects where previous work exists but stalled due to funding or poor sequencing.
- Targets suitable for staged de-risking: mapping, sampling, geophysics, drilling, and resource track planning.
- Licenses where access, logistics, and permitting pathways are workable under a real timeline.
Platform Thesis
Why The DRC Copperbelt
The Copperbelt is one of the world’s most productive belts for copper and cobalt and remains highly relevant for strategic supply chains. The opportunity is not scarcity of geology. The gap is disciplined execution: capital allocation, technical sequencing, and a credible monetization plan.
Why A Platform Approach
A platform reduces single-asset binary risk and creates portfolio optionality. Shared field infrastructure and standardized technical workflows improve capital efficiency and create multiple routes to value creation across a pipeline of assets.
Gated Exploration Program
Each license runs through the same staged workflow. Every phase has explicit deliverables, budgets, QA/QC standards, and decision points.
| Stage | Objective | Outputs | Go / No-Go Basis |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stage 0: Acquisition Screen | Confirm title, access, thesis fit, and program scope. | Baseline data room, risk register, budget and timeline. | Title clarity, practical access, financeable work plan. |
| Stage 1: Desktop + Field Recon | Validate targets quickly and cheaply. | Sampling and mapping plan, early geochem, QA/QC setup. | Target coherence and evidence strength. |
| Stage 2: Technical Tightening | Upgrade target quality and drill justification. | Geophysics, trenching where applicable, refined targets. | Drill-ready targets with defined rationale. |
| Stage 3: Drilling | Test continuity, grade, and scale potential. | Assay set, sections, interpretation, updated model. | Continuity and scale justification. |
| Stage 4: Resource Track | Position for strategic process and financing pathways. | Resource pathway plan, technical summary, diligence pack. | Monetization readiness and capital pathway fit. |
The objective is decision-grade evidence that supports a transaction outcome, not generic exploration activity.
Strategic Monetization Outcomes
Offtake-Linked Financing
Where technical and commercial thresholds are met, offtake-linked structures may be pursued. This depends on data quality, counterparties, jurisdiction appetite, and compliance acceptability.
M&A Or Joint Venture
We build the file to withstand technical diligence and commercial scrutiny. Strategic buyers pay for clarity, not narratives. The goal is a clean pathway to a negotiated transaction.
Listing Track When Appropriate
A listing track is evaluated only when scale, continuity, governance readiness, and market conditions support it. It is a pathway, not a promise.
Portfolio Optionality
Some assets are retained, some partnered, some exited. A platform wins by making repeated good decisions across a pipeline, not by betting everything on one license.
Current Raise: USD 25M
Raise Parameters
- Target: USD 25,000,000
- Ticket Size: USD 250,000 to USD 5,000,000
- Purpose: initial license portfolio acquisition and Phase 1 exploration execution.
- Process: teaser and technical summary first, then information memorandum under NDA.
Structure and terms are finalized under definitive documents and jurisdictional constraints.
Indicative Use Of Proceeds
| Bucket | Purpose | Indicative Share |
|---|---|---|
| License Portfolio | Acquisitions, renewals, legal diligence, and title work. | 30% to 45% |
| Exploration Program | Recon, geochem, geophysics, drilling, assays, QA/QC, and technical reporting. | 40% to 55% |
| Platform Operations | Field logistics, compliance, security planning, and operating readiness. | 8% to 15% |
| Contingency | Buffer for permitting friction, field delays, and program extensions. | 5% to 10% |
Risk Discipline
Execution Controls
- Stage-based budgets with stop rules and documented decision gates.
- Chain of custody and QA/QC for samples and assays.
- Data integrity and consistent reporting for investor diligence.
- Counterparty and compliance discipline where strategic routes are pursued.
Reality Check
- Exploration outcomes are uncertain and probabilistic.
- Jurisdiction and permitting add execution risk that must be actively managed.
- Commodity cycles affect timing and exit routes.
- Monetization depends on third-party decisions and market conditions.
Disclaimer. FG Capital Advisors supports platform buildout and capital raising coordination as an advisory firm. We do not make public offers. Any investor engagement is subject to eligibility, KYC and AML and sanctions screening, and definitive legal documentation.
