[Mine Acquico // Solid Minerals & Metallurgy]
Africa's minerals, refined in Africa.
An indigenous Nigerian exploration and mining platform converting raw geological endowments into high-value domestic industrial metals — through integrated captive power and downstream smelting.
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Strategic minerals
500,000
TPA steel smelting capacity
Captive IPP
Integrated energy architecture
100%
In-country beneficiation focus
01 / Mineral sovereignty
End the export of rock. Build the metal at home.
For generations, Africa has shipped raw ore abroad and bought back finished steel at a premium. Mine Acquico exists to reverse that model — keeping extraction, beneficiation, smelting and value creation in African hands, under African ownership.
Indigenous ownership
A Nigerian-owned operator, backed by a group that builds and runs heavy physical infrastructure — not a passive fund.
Local beneficiation
Every tonne processed in-country: concentration, reduction and smelting into rebar, rods and plate for national demand.
Shared prosperity
Skilled jobs, supplier ecosystems and community development across host communities and the wider economy.
02 / Strategic minerals
Four minerals. One industrial system.
03 / Mine-to-Metal
A four-phase pathway to commercial steel.
PHASE 01
Resource Delineation
Year 1
PHASE 02
Bankable Feasibility & Permitting
Years 1–2
PHASE 03
Mine & Smelter Construction
Years 2–4
PHASE 04
Commercial Steel Production
Year 4+
04 / The tin vision
Bring Nigerian tin back to the world, as metal, not ore.
For most of the last century the Jos Plateau made Nigeria one of the world’s known names in tin. That industry faded, and the cassiterite that remains is mostly dug by hand and sold abroad as raw concentrate. Mine Acquico’s vision is to rebuild it properly: mined responsibly, refined at home, and sold as metal into the industries that need it most.
01 · Mine
Reopen the tin belt
Modern, responsible mining of cassiterite across the Plateau’s younger granite province, where Nigeria’s tin industry was born.
02 · Refine
Smelt tin in Nigeria
Concentrate the ore on site and smelt it into refined tin ingots at home, instead of shipping out concentrate for others to finish.
03 · Supply
Feed the solder chain
Tin solder joins every circuit board, and tin-coated copper ribbon connects the cells inside every solar panel, including the ones Tranos will build.
05 / Silica to solar glass
From Nigerian sand to Nigerian solar panels.
Every solar panel is mostly glass, and solar glass starts as high-purity silica. Mine Acquico’s silica can become the low-iron glass on the face of the panels Tranos will build at its 800 MW factory in Mowe: one supply chain, quarry to rooftop, inside the group.
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Quartz exploration & extraction
High-purity quartz and silica sand
Mine Acquico
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Purification to low-iron silica
Washed, separated and leached
Mine Acquico
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Solar glass manufacturing
Clear, tempered solar glass
Planned glass plant
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Panel assembly at Tranos
800 MW solar panel factory, Mowe
Tranos
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Supply to Nigeria’s solar build-out
Homes, businesses and power plants
Nigeria’s solar market