◇ The Story
An operator-side trader. Not a broker.
Mavura Resources (Private) Limited is a Harare-based mineral trading company. We source chrome ore and concentrate from the Great Dyke, manganese from the Kwekwe belt, and spodumene lithium from Bikita and Goromonzi. The work is operational, not advisory: we pre-finance mine operators, sit at the weighbridge, and run the cargo to port ourselves.
Most of the trade in Zimbabwean ore is brokered. A trader takes a position, calls a few mines, and hopes the tonnage shows up at the right grade. We took the opposite path. Our pre-finance arrangements with operators give us first-look on production, custody at consolidation, and assay records that travel with the cargo.
Buyers we work with are stainless steel mills and ferrochrome smelters in China, ferromanganese and silicomanganese plants in India, and lithium converters across East and Southeast Asia. The trade desk handles FOB, CIF and CFR terms, off-spec material, and bespoke grades on request.
Chrome from the Great Dyke, lithium from Bikita, manganese from Kwekwe. Three belts, one logistics desk, three Indian Ocean ports.