Mine To Magnet

Not in the mine. Not in the magnet. In between.

The critical-minerals chain doesn't break at the deposit or the factory floor. It breaks in the middle — separation, refining, metal, alloy — where capital, technology and offtake rarely meet. HICP builds the capital and the projects that close that gap, starting with Colombia and Brazil.

SIX LINKS. ONE CHOKEPOINT.

Everyone underwrites the ends. The middle is where the chain is concentrated, under-capitalized and strategically exposed.

1 RESOURCE Deposits, tenements and tailings with recoverable critical-mineral content.
2 EXTRACTION Mining and concentration — de-risked with modern ore intelligence.
3 - the gap SEPARATION Cracking concentrate into individual oxides. The industry's narrowest door.
4 - the gap METAL & ALLOY Oxide to metal to alloy — the step most supply chains assume someone else has solved.
5 MAGNET Sintered and bonded permanent magnets, made to OEM specification.
6 END USE Defense, aerospace, electrified motion, energy. Where the risk finally lands.

Thesis:

GEOLOGY IS ABUNDANT. COORDINATION IS SCARCE.

A mine without a midstream is a stranded asset. A magnet plant without feedstock is a press release. HICP underwrites the connection.

A   CONCENTRATION IS THE RISK

Processing capacity for rare earths and many byproduct metals sits in very few hands. Allied end-users carry exposure they can't see on a bill of materials.

B   CAPITAL SPEAKS TWO LANGUAGES

Mining capital prices geology. Industrial capital prices offtake. The midstream needs both in the same room — structured, sequenced and de-risked.

C   THE HEMISPHERE IS THE HEDGE

Colombia and Brazil hold the geology, the mining culture and the strategic alignment to anchor a Western Hemisphere chain — if the middle gets built.

How we work:

CAPITAL. PROJECTS. TECHNOLOGY.

In that order of difficulty — reversed.

CAPITAL FORMATION

Structuring and syndicating across PE, family offices, strategic and corporate venture capital, and project finance — matched to stage, not forced into it.

PROJECT DEVELOPMENT

From resource screening to commercial agreement architecture: JVs, offtake, tolling and technology licensing, mapped to each asset's real constraints.

TECHNOLOGY DEPLOYMENT

A tiered bench of mining-technology partners — ore intelligence, recovery, processing — moved from pilot to production on live assets.


THE DEMAND SIDE

WE START FROM THE MAGNET, TOO.

Based in the Denver–Boulder–Colorado Springs corridor, HICP maps critical-mineral exposure across aerospace and defense manufacturers — tier by tier, mineral by mineral — so supply is built for the buyers who actually need it.

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Colorado A&D manufacturers mapped Supply-chain tiers analyzed Critical minerals assessed for vulnerability
INVESTORS INVESTORS
PE, family offices and strategic capital seeking hard-asset exposure with a defensible offtake story. PE, family offices and strategic capital seeking hard-asset exposure with a defensible offtake story.
PROJECT OWNERS PROJECT OWNERS
Operators and exploration companies with resource in hand and no clear route to the midstream. Operators and exploration companies with resource in hand and no clear route to the midstream. candice.gates@mail.com
TECHNOLOGY COMPANIES TECHNOLOGY COMPANIES
Mining-tech and recovery innovators who need live assets to prove out at scale. Mining-tech and recovery innovators who need live assets to prove out at scale.
OEMS & PRIMES OEMS & PRIMES
Aerospace, defense and electrification buyers who need allied, traceable supply — before the next shock, not after. Aerospace, defense and electrification buyers who need allied, traceable supply — before the next shock, not after.

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