NDARAMAMining Bizschool

First Two Lessons FreeTwelve Countries

A Mining Business School, and a Board

You Own the Ground. We Teach You the Business.

Thirteen modules, twelve Majors, a Library of all 55 minerals across twelve countries, a Dictionary and the calculators. Beside it, a board where holders and licensed buyers find each other.

Start Module 1 FreeTrade MineralsHow Certification Works

The first two lessons are open to everybody. One code, US$78, opens the rest of the school - once, not a subscription.

A buying yard with a headframe behind it: a holder setting a parcel down beside a counter, a licensed agent at the ledger, a truck waiting at the gate.
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Who It Is For

Written for the People Who Own the Deal

Not for the person down the shaft. For the person who owns it, funds it, fills the truck or finds the buyer.

The owner standing in front of their own headframe with the title to it in hand

The Owner

You hold the ground. What you need is to read your own asset the way a bank, a buyer and a revenue authority will read it.

Three small parcels being pooled into one parcel large enough for a serious buyer

The Aggregator

You pool small producers into a parcel worth a licensed buyer's journey, and you take a position in the middle.

A trader's truck loaded at the site with the papers already in hand

The Trader

You move it. Site, truck, papers, border, buyer - and the margin that survives all five.

A deal read on paper turning into a return, with no mineral anywhere in the picture

The Financier

You want the return without the rock. That means pricing the licence, the offtake and the cost per tonne.

A dealer in front of a board of minerals with one picked out, asking who buys it

The Dealer

You already trade commodities. Now somebody wants a buyer for a mineral you have never handled, by Friday.

The Twelve Majors

Every Mineral Business, Chain by Chain

Each Major draws its own value chain: the product in the form it is sold, the five stages it runs through, the unit it is priced by, and which of the twelve countries produce it.

Gold shown as it is sold, with the first and last stage of its business and how many of the twelve countries produce it1

Gold

Won from ore to sold to a licensed buyer. The whole chain, drawn.

Diamonds and Gemstones shown as it is sold, with the first and last stage of its business and how many of the twelve countries produce it2

Diamonds and Gemstones

Recovered from gravel to sold at a licensed sale. The whole chain, drawn.

Platinum Group Metals shown as it is sold, with the first and last stage of its business and how many of the twelve countries produce it3

Platinum Group Metals

Mined from reef to sold on contract. The whole chain, drawn.

Copper and Cobalt shown as it is sold, with the first and last stage of its business and how many of the twelve countries produce it4

Copper and Cobalt

Mined to sold to a trader or smelter. The whole chain, drawn.

Lithium and Battery Minerals shown as it is sold, with the first and last stage of its business and how many of the twelve countries produce it5

Lithium and Battery Minerals

Mined to sold on an offtake. The whole chain, drawn.

Chrome and Manganese shown as it is sold, with the first and last stage of its business and how many of the twelve countries produce it6

Chrome and Manganese

Mined to sold to a smelter or exporter. The whole chain, drawn.

Iron Ore and Bulk Metals shown as it is sold, with the first and last stage of its business and how many of the twelve countries produce it7

Iron Ore and Bulk Metals

Mined to sold on a bulk contract. The whole chain, drawn.

Coltan, Tin and Tungsten shown as it is sold, with the first and last stage of its business and how many of the twelve countries produce it8

Coltan, Tin and Tungsten

Dug and panned to sold to a smelter. The whole chain, drawn.

Rare Earths and Titanium shown as it is sold, with the first and last stage of its business and how many of the twelve countries produce it9

Rare Earths and Titanium

Dredged or mined to sold on a long contract. The whole chain, drawn.

Fertiliser and Agricultural Minerals shown as it is sold, with the first and last stage of its business and how many of the twelve countries produce it10

Fertiliser and Agricultural Minerals

Mined or quarried to sold to a blender or farmer. The whole chain, drawn.

Industrial and Chemical Minerals shown as it is sold, with the first and last stage of its business and how many of the twelve countries produce it11

Industrial and Chemical Minerals

Quarried to sold to an industrial user. The whole chain, drawn.

Dimension Stone and Quarrying shown as it is sold, with the first and last stage of its business and how many of the twelve countries produce it12

Dimension Stone and Quarrying

Quarried in blocks to sold to a fabricator or exporter. The whole chain, drawn.

All Twelve Majors

The Core Course

Thirteen Modules, One a Day

Each answers a single commercial question and ends with something you can do on a real deal.

The line a mineral travels from the ground to a parcel, to a buyer, to payment1

Mining Basics

How does money actually move from a pit to a buyer, and where in that line do I stand?

A worked deposit and its valuation document, turning ground into an asset2

Deposits as Assets

How do I read a deposit as an investment rather than as a geologist, and tell a real one from a story?

A licensing counter where an application is stamped and becomes a licence3

Mining Rights and Licences

What am I allowed to do in each of the twelve countries, under what instrument, and how do I get one?

A company box with the holder, the partner and the investor branching from it4

Structuring the Business: Companies, Partnerships and Joint Ventures

What should I actually set up, in which country, and how do I keep control of it?

Three bars - capital, running cost and margin - against a break-even line5

Costing an Operation: Capex, Running Costs and Break-even

What does this actually cost to run, and how much must I move before I make money?

A balance with ore in one pan and an assay certificate beside it6

Grade, Assay and How Price Is Set

How is the value of my parcel established, who establishes it, and how do I stop that going against me?

Two people across a contract, one on each side of the deal7

Selling: Buyers, Contracts and Negotiation

Who is allowed to buy what I have, what do I sign, and how do I negotiate from a position of knowledge?

A costed plan turning into money, with an arrow between them8

Finance: Raising Capital and Dealing with Investors and Banks

Where does the money come from, what will it cost me, and what will they want to see?

A loaded truck at a border post with the papers waiting beyond9

Logistics and Moving Minerals Across Borders

How does a parcel physically get to the buyer, what paperwork rides with it, and where does it get stuck?

A twelve-month compliance calendar with the royalty due beside it10

Compliance, Tax and Royalties

What does the state take, what must I file, and how do I stay in good standing while I grow?

Four people from one community standing under the social licence11

Labour, Community and the Social Licence

Who does the work, what do I owe them and the people around the operation, and how do I keep operating?

Four rising bars from ore to concentrate to refined metal to a branded product12

Value-add, Beneficiation and IP

Should I sell it as it comes out, or turn it into something worth more, and when does that actually pay?

Somebody crossing from the informal side of a line to the licensed side13

Formalisation: From Artisanal to Licensed Business

How does an informal operation become a licensed business, and why would it want to?

What You Keep Using

Four Things That Outlast the Course

The lessons send you into these, and these send you back to the lessons.

A reference room of specimen trays with a parcel of ore on the bench

The Library

One page for each of the 55 minerals: what it is, who buys it, how it trades, where it occurs across the twelve countries and the permit to expect.

An open dictionary with the first entry of each page marked in gold

The Dictionary

The words the money moves on. Letters of credit, Incoterms, offtake agreements, the Kimberley Process certificate, the LBMA price.

A calculator showing a worked cost per tonne on its display

The Calculators

Cost per tonne, break-even volume and grade, the price itemised, moisture, transport, payback and your own fee. Worked on the spot.

A certificate with its seal stamped on it

The Certificate

A costed plan on one real opportunity, reviewed against a published rubric. Certified NDARAMA Mining Business Professional.

The Board

Beside the School, a Place to Actually Trade.

Holders declare what they hold and stay anonymous. Licensed buyers see volume pooled by region across twelve markets. NDARAMA introduces the two and touches neither the mineral nor the money.

Trade MineralsThe Twelve Ministries
A board of available minerals with two people reading it and parcels waiting below.