Our Business
Structured commercial participation across African resource value chains.
Shobane African Resources focuses on opportunity sourcing, feedstock procurement, route evaluation, supply coordination and disciplined commercial execution across selected resource value chains.
Operating Model
How SAR moves from opportunity to execution.
Opportunity Sourcing
SAR identifies and evaluates commercially relevant resource opportunities through structured assessment, market awareness and disciplined commercial screening.
Counterparty Assessment
We evaluate suppliers, processors, logistics providers and commercial stakeholders with a focus on credibility, capability, alignment and execution readiness.
Route Evaluation
Every opportunity is assessed against route logic, processing requirements, logistics considerations, commercial viability and practical execution factors.
Commercial Structuring
SAR focuses on creating commercially workable participation structures supported by clear responsibilities, counterpart alignment and transaction discipline.
Supply Coordination
We coordinate resource supply, processing pathways, logistics requirements and stakeholder engagement to support efficient commercial execution.
Execution Oversight
SAR applies operational discipline, documentation controls and route-monitoring principles to support responsible participation across selected value chains.
Priority Workstreams
Current focus across selected resource opportunities.
Chrome
Feedstock sourcing, processing participation and route-controlled commercial execution.
View →Manganese
Selective opportunity assessment, supply coordination and disciplined participation.
View →Coal
Commercially governed engagement supported by route evaluation and counterpart quality.
View →Lithium
Strategic assessment of battery-material opportunities and selected supply pathways.
View →Commodity Coverage
A broad mandate. Disciplined selective engagement.
SAR maintains awareness and selective participation across the following commodity categories. Active workstreams are determined by commercial logic, route clarity and counterpart credibility.
Hard Commodities
Energy Commodities
Soft Commodities
Commodity coverage does not imply active trading positions across all categories. SAR engages selectively where commercial conditions, route logic and counterpart quality support credible participation.