Tungsten counsel,
from the heart of the Great Lakes.
Heavier than gold. Harder than steel. Made, in part, here.
5d⁴ 6s²
183.84 u
- Group
- 6
- Period
- 6
- Density
- 19.25 g/cm³
- Melting
- 3,422 °C
- Mohs
- 7.5
- State
- Solid
From orebody to offtake — we know every step.
Tungsten is the spine of the modern industrial world: the carbide tools that shape your phone's chassis, the filaments inside aerospace alloys, the armour-piercing kinetic penetrators in defence stockpiles.
Rwanda hosts some of the world's highest-grade wolframite deposits, mined in scheelite-bearing pegmatites across Rutsiro, Nyamagabe and Gakenke. We operate at the seam where geology, geopolitics and supply discipline meet — and we have done so quietly since 2014.
Six disciplines. One element.
Geological & Resource Assessment
JORC- and NI 43-101-aligned resource reviews of wolframite and scheelite deposits across the Kivu Belt. Field mapping, grade modelling and confidence-tier reporting for capital allocation decisions.
Supply-Chain Due Diligence
OECD- and Dodd-Frank-aligned chain-of-custody audits. Tag-and-trace verification against ITSCI, RMI and the EU Conflict Minerals Regulation, with full mine-of-origin documentation.
Offtake Structuring & Negotiation
Long-form and spot offtake agreements between Rwandan producers and international refineries. APT-pricing formulae, FX hedging structures and force-majeure architecture.
Refining & Processing Advisory
Strategic counsel on in-country beneficiation: gravity-separation circuits, ammonium-paratungstate conversion economics and the case for vertically-integrated Kigali processing.
Market Intelligence & Pricing
Quarterly briefings on European APT benchmarks, Chinese export quotas, US Defense Logistics Agency stockpile rotations and the downstream effects of EV-grade cemented carbide demand.
Government & Regulatory Liaison
Permitting, royalty-regime negotiation and ESG reporting alongside the Rwanda Mines, Petroleum and Gas Board (RMB). Pre-IPO mining-licence diligence for listed-company filings.
The world's tungsten supply is thinly held. Rwanda is a structural answer.
Tungsten content. China supplies 82 %; supply is amongst the most concentrated of any critical mineral.
By tonnage. Third-largest non-Chinese producer globally — punching well above its geographic weight.
Ammonium-paratungstate, 88.5 % WO₃ basis. Up 14 % year-on-year on defence and aerospace demand.
Tungsten classified as both critical and strategic under the 2024 EU CRMA. De-risked sourcing is no longer optional.
Why Kigali.
Closer to the orebody than any boardroom in London or Geneva.
Our offices sit two hours' drive from working tungsten mines and ninety minutes' flight from the deepwater ports of Dar es Salaam and Mombasa. We see the trucks. We meet the cooperatives. We walk the adits.
Kigali offers a rare combination for a critical-minerals practice: a transparent regulatory regime, a stable currency peg, RwandAir's direct connections to four continents, and proximity to over 60 % of Africa's tungsten reserves within a 400 km radius.
A decade of quiet work, in numbers.
A briefing begins
with a single conversation.
Nyarugenge, Kigali