The financing team between you and the risk
A named team in Freetown, accountable to you from first call to final assay.
Who we are
We are a Freetown-headquartered team of minerals-trade professionals, due-diligence specialists and logistics operators working across sixteen West African countries. Our financing comes from two fronts — institutional partners and private partners — who provide the funds for mineral transactions that we sanction, monitor and supervise from start to finish.
Our role in every deal is the same: provide our lenders with qualified, credible, legitimate buyers, and provide those buyers with transactions that have been verified on the ground by people who know the full lay of the land. We are in this terrain. We know which documents are real, which offices issue them, which prices are plausible and which sellers are performances.
Why the model works
The West African minerals trade is full of genuine supply and genuine opportunity — and saturated with advance-fee fraud that exploits the distance between an overseas buyer and the ground truth. Most schemes share one mechanic: get the buyer to pay something, anything, before independently verified goods exist. Taxes. Export licences. Storage. Shipping. "Inflow documentation."
Our model breaks that mechanic completely. In a financed transaction the buyer pays nothing upfront. Every legitimate cost is pre-financed by us and paid directly to the actual government offices and service providers — never routed through a seller. We are only paid when the deal concludes successfully: product delivered, final assay passed, settlement made per the signed agreement. Our incentives and yours point in exactly the same direction.
Mission & vision
Why we do this
Our mission
To make legitimate mineral transactions in West Africa safe and financeable — by carrying the upfront risk ourselves, verifying every deal on the ground, and connecting credible buyers to the institutional and private capital that gets real trade done.
Our vision
A West African minerals trade where the advance-fee scam is starved out of existence — because serious buyers no longer pay first, and verified, lawful, fully documented deals become the only ones that close.
How we are structured
Two sources of capital, one standard of scrutiny
Funding for the transactions we sanction comes through two channels. Both apply the same rule: no financing moves before our due diligence clears the deal.
Institutional partners
Established financing institutions that fund larger and recurring transactions. Institutional deals favour buyers with documented trade history and suit program structures — recurring monthly tranches with scaling volume, like our Ghana supply programs.
Private partners
Vetted private lenders who fund individual transactions with speed and flexibility. Private capital often suits first deals and time-sensitive opportunities, with the buyer introduced directly to the lender before funds are approved — transparent, on the record.
Our commitments
What we hold ourselves to
Verification before money
No financing is committed before seller verification, witnessed proof of product and testing on calibrated equipment at a recognised facility.
Lawful channels only
Every transaction runs through the licensed export system of its origin country — taxes paid to the authorities, documents confirmed at source, custody trail complete.
Terms in writing
Costs, fees, timelines, delivery and settlement are agreed and signed before execution. Fees are success-based; there are no hidden charges and no surprises.
Honest answers
If your deal is a scam, we will tell you — plainly, in writing, with the evidence. More deals fail our due diligence than pass it, and every failure is a buyer's capital preserved.
Your first point of contact
New enquiries and applications are handled by our business brokerage desk, led by Bockarie Saidu, Business Broker / Consultant. Bockarie conducts the initial phone interview, walks you through our operational model and financing terms, and coordinates your KYC and lender introduction. Tell us your availability in GMT/UTC and your WhatsApp number when you apply, and the first call gets scheduled within a few business days.
Visit us in Freetown
Our head office is at No 78, Hamilton Avenue, Freetown, Sierra Leone, open Mon – Sat, 07:00 – 18:00 GMT. In-person meetings are welcome by appointment, and during a financed transaction your team or representative can attend testing and export procedures alongside ours. We encourage it — transparency is cheap for honest parties and expensive for dishonest ones.
Careers
We periodically engage due-diligence specialists, logistics coordinators and in-country verification partners across our markets. If your experience fits, write to info@mineralsfinanceteam.com with "Careers" in the subject line.
At a glance
Minerals Finance Team in brief
- Company
- Minerals Finance Team (MFT), a West African trade finance company
- Head office
- No 78, Hamilton Avenue, Freetown, Sierra Leone
- What we do
- Verify and finance gold and rough diamond transactions between buyers and licensed sellers
- Core markets
- Sierra Leone, Ghana, Guinea, Mali, Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Liberia and Senegal, plus 8 more West African countries case by case
- Upfront cost
- $0 for the buyer and $0 for the seller
- What we finance
- Government taxes and royalties, export licences, assay, insurance and freight, paid directly to the authorities and providers
- Our fee
- One success fee, paid by the buyer only after delivery and final assay. Sellers pay nothing.
- Verification
- Licence checks with the issuing authority, source tracing, AML and sanctions screening, KYC and independent assay
- Other services
- Escrow, collateral management and pay master services
- Contact
- WhatsApp +232 35 094 391 · info@mineralsfinanceteam.com · Monday to Saturday, 07:00 to 18:00 GMT
- Get started
- Apply for financing · Register as a seller · Track an application
Ready to transact without the risk?
Submit your deal summary through our qualification form. If it stands up to scrutiny, we finance every upfront cost — and you pay only after delivery and final assay.
Apply for Financing