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Mining Exploration Funding For Private Companies
We help private mining explorers and project owners raise capital for real work on the ground. That means equity rounds, strategic placements, royalties, and JV or earn in structures sized for mapping, geophysics, drilling, and first pass studies. Our focus is on unlisted companies with drill ready targets and management teams that can handle institutional due diligence.
Share your projects, stage of work, and capital need. We respond with credible funding routes, likely investor types, and a path from deck to signed commitments through our regulated partners.
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Who This Mining Exploration Funding Service Is For
Target Client Profile
- Private mining exploration companies with one or more projects at target generation to drill ready stage.
- Project owners and prospect generators with district scale land packages that need capital to prove up key targets.
- Management teams planning a future listing or strategic deal who want a clean, pre listing capital structure and serious reference investors.
- Companies focused on commodities that institutional investors care about, such as gold, copper, nickel, lithium, uranium, and other critical or battery metals.
Situations That Sit Outside This Service
- Pure concept stage ventures with no permit, no tenure security, and no clear technical plan.
- Very small friends and family rounds below a few hundred thousand dollars that can be handled locally without an external advisor.
- Companies that seek senior project finance debt before they have a resource, studies, or any visibility on production.
- Structures that cannot meet basic ESG, anti corruption, and community standards for modern investors.
What FG Capital Advisors Does For Private Explorers
Capital Strategy And Structure
- Review your project portfolio, stage of work, and technical plans, then map this against realistic capital options and investor groups.
- Define round size, use of proceeds, valuation range, and security type, including common equity, preferred equity, and equity linked instruments.
- Where suitable, outline royalty, streaming, or project level JV and earn in options so you can compare corporate and project funding.
- Prepare a clear funding narrative that connects geology, exploration plan, and capital use in a way that suits specialist mining investors.
Investor Readiness And Placement
- Upgrade or rebuild your investor deck, technical appendices, and one page summary so they hold up under buy side questions.
- Set up a clean data room that covers tenure, geology, ESG, and corporate governance in a way that professional investors expect.
- Through regulated partners, introduce the opportunity to mining focused funds, family offices, traders, and strategic investors with a real appetite for early stage risk.
- Coordinate term sheet feedback, valuation discussion, and final allocation across investors so the cap table supports future rounds and a possible listing.
Types Of Capital We Arrange For Exploration
Corporate Equity Rounds
- Seed, pre Series A, and growth rounds for private explorers that need capital across several field seasons.
- Rounds anchored by specialist mining funds, family offices, and high conviction individuals who will support follow on capital.
- Structures designed with a future listing in mind, including clear pre money and post money ownership and simple cap tables.
Strategic And Project Level Capital
- Strategic equity placements by producers, mid tiers, trading houses, or battery supply chain investors that want early access to future supply.
- Royalties and similar deals where a small slice of project revenue is sold today to fund drilling and studies.
- JV and earn in structures where a partner funds a defined work program on a project in exchange for a staged interest.
Bridge And Pre Listing Capital
- Rounds that bridge a private explorer into an IPO, RTO, or sale of a key project interest.
- Instruments that keep the company funded through listing preparation, marketing, and early public company costs.
- Coordination with listing advisers so terms and structure remain consistent through the process.
Where We Do Not Focus
- High leverage project finance debt for construction stage mines, which belongs further down the development curve.
- Retail oriented crowdfunding that prioritises small ticket investors over concentrated, professional capital.
- Structures that obscure exploration risk or over promise on timelines, which experienced investors will reject quickly.
Mining Exploration Funding Execution Process
| Stage 1 – Assessment And Funding Route | We review your projects, jurisdiction, work completed so far, and proposed exploration plan. We then indicate whether your situation suits a straight corporate equity round, a mix of equity and strategic capital, or a project level JV or royalty process. |
| Stage 2 – Mandate, Work Scope, And Target Investors | Once there is alignment on route and size, we agree a mandate, work scope, fee structure, and chaperone model with our regulated partners. We define a first pass target list of investors by type, geography, and ticket size. |
| Stage 3 – Materials And Data Room | We organise your technical and corporate information into an investor ready deck and a structured data room. This includes tenure documents, geological data, maps and sections, ESG information, and financial forecasts that relate directly to planned work. |
| Stage 4 – Initial Outreach And Feedback | Through regulated partners we approach selected funds, family offices, and strategic parties. We gather feedback on risk, valuation, structure, and work program, then adjust the offer terms where that improves the chance of closing without compromising core objectives. |
| Stage 5 – Term Sheets, Diligence, And Allocation | We coordinate term sheet negotiation, support technical and legal diligence, and manage the balance between anchor investors and a diversified cap table. For JV or royalty deals we work through term detail and control points carefully with your counsel. |
| Stage 6 – Closing And Next Rounds | Once documents are agreed and conditions are met, we support closing, funds flow, and any final technical or corporate steps. We then help you think ahead to the next funding stage so today’s deal does not block tomorrow’s options. |
Timelines depend on project readiness, quality of existing information, and investor response. Our role is to keep the process honest about what the market will and will not fund at your stage.
Eligibility And Data Room Expectations
Baseline Eligibility
- Legally secure tenure with clear concession or licence documents and compliance with local requirements.
- Coherent geological concept supported by mapping, sampling, geophysics, or prior drilling, not just a land position.
- Work program with clear objectives, budgets, and timelines for the next 12 to 24 months.
- Management team that can answer technical, ESG, and jurisdiction questions from professional investors.
Core Data Room Items
- Corporate documents, ownership charts, shareholder register, and any shareholder agreements.
- Licence and tenure documents, maps, reports, and any government or community agreements.
- Geological data including sampling, assays, drill logs if any, geophysical reports, and technical interpretations.
- ESG and community information, including any impact assessments, engagement plans, and health and safety policies.
Indicative Deal Parameters
| Typical Round Size | Most mandates focus on capital raises in the 5 to 20 million dollar range for private explorers, with scope to plan for larger follow on rounds if results support that. |
| Stage Of Project | Target generation to early resource definition, including mapping, geophysics, trenching, and one or more drilling phases. Pure grass roots without any serious work completed is generally too early. |
| Use Of Proceeds | Exploration work programs, technical studies, site infrastructure needed for drilling, ESG and community engagement, and limited corporate overhead that supports the program. |
| Investor Types | Specialist mining and natural resources funds, family offices with resource exposure, strategic investors from the mining and trading sector, and a concentrated group of knowledgeable private investors. |
| Instruments | Common and preferred equity, equity linked notes where justified, project level royalties, and staged JV or earn in structures with defined work commitments. |
| Geography | Projects in jurisdictions where tenure is reasonably secure and investors can get comfortable with permitting, community issues, and rule of law. High risk areas are assessed case by case. |
If you are running a private exploration company with drill ready targets and a clear work program, send us your deck, technical summary, and capital need. We will respond with a view on funding options, investor types that may engage, and a proposed mandate to take your raise to market with our regulated partners.
Request An Exploration Funding ProposalFAQ
Do you only work with projects that already have a resource estimate?
No. We work with earlier stage explorers as long as tenure is secure and the geological case for drilling is clear. A compliant resource helps but is not a strict requirement if the technical story is strong enough for specialist investors.
Can you help if we plan to list in the next 12 to 24 months?
Yes. We can structure private rounds that fund pre listing work and still sit cleanly ahead of an IPO or RTO. The aim is to bring in investors who can anchor the listing rather than create a complex cap table that scares public market buyers.
Will debt be available at pure exploration stage?
Straight senior debt is rare before a project reaches studies and early development. Most early stage funding is equity, equity linked, or project level risk capital such as royalties and JV earn ins. We are direct about this so you do not waste time chasing products that do not exist for your stage.
How does FG Capital Advisors get paid on mining exploration mandates?
Our compensation usually combines a work fee for structuring and preparation with a success based fee on capital raised. Exact terms depend on raise size, complexity, and the scope agreed with you and our regulated partners before we start.
Can you help if our last exploration raise failed?
Possibly. We review why the last process stalled, what investors said, and whether the technical or corporate story has moved on since then. If we believe the market will give the project a fair hearing we may take a mandate. If not, we say so early.
Disclosures. FG Capital Advisors provides advisory and arranging services through regulated partners. Nothing on this page is an offer or solicitation to buy or sell securities or to invest in any project. Any engagement is subject to internal approval, conflict checks, KYC and AML and sanctions screening, independent legal and tax advice on your side, and the terms of a formal mandate, term sheet, and final transaction documentation.
