SA Bulk Minerals · Trading OS

From breakeven
to bill of lading.

The trading desk for South African bulk minerals — reverse-waterfall pricing, freight margin, live vessels and lab-verified assays, all on one deal.

Fairwater logistics partner LBMA · ICMM · Transnet data Live AIS · PostGIS
Trading Desk LIVE
Reverse waterfallUSD/t
Sell (CIF)
− Freight
− Royalty + costs
− Assay adj.
Breakeven buy
Steelpoort · Cr
FOB · Richards Bay
Steelpoort → Richards Bay · FOB → Qingdao · CIF
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Why it matters

Your margin is won or lost
at the mine gate.

Bulk minerals turn on a few dollars a tonne. Freight, royalties and assay penalties move every day — and a breakeven that's a day old means you overpay at the gate or walk away from real money. MineMarket computes the floor from live data on every deal, then carries it all the way to the bill of lading.

Without MineMarket
  • Status chased through endless emails, calls and WhatsApps
  • Breakeven math re-keyed into a fragile spreadsheet per deal
  • Freight, royalty and assay adjustments guessed, not modelled
  • No live view of the vessel, the port, or the margin at risk
  • Counterparty trust lives in someone's head
With MineMarket
  • One dashboard gives both counterparties the same real-time view
  • Sell price in → breakeven buy out, every time, audited
  • Routes ranked by real margin across every port pairing
  • Lab assays parsed, spec-compared and verified on the deal
  • KYC, contracts, e-sign and all official comms in one flow
The platform

One desk, from origination to settlement.

Every capability below runs on real data and ties back to a single deal record.

01 · PRICING CORE

Reverse-waterfall pricing

Enter the sell price; MineMarket strips freight, royalties and assay penalties to return the breakeven buy — the number that wins or kills the deal.

02 · LOGISTICS

Freight margin optimization

Ranks every origin-port / destination combination by landed margin.

03 · RISK

Automated risk analysis

Continuous risk scoring on every route, counterparty and trade — flags exposure before it costs you.

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04 · AIS

Live vessels & ports

Real-time AIS positions, port congestion and marine weather.

05 · QUALITY

Lab assays & spec

Assays parsed to structured data, spec-compared and verified.

Cr₂O₃ 44%Fe ✓SiO₂ ✓P pass
06 · DEAL ROOM

A dashboard per deal

Deal flow, live status, owner on each counterparty and instant alerts when anything changes — nothing stalls a trade.

FlowStatusOwnerAlerts
07 · TRUST

KYC & counterparty checks

Verify every counterparty, score trust and keep the full contract trail — trade with traceability.

KYC ✓SanctionsDocsContract
08 · CLOSE

Contracts, e-sign & comms

Term-sheet PDFs, native e-sign, and every official message on the deal in one thread.

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The signature

The reverse waterfall, in the open.

No black box. Watch a sell price walk down to the breakeven buy — the calculation your whole margin depends on.

Sell · CIF Qingdao
$312.00 / t
− Ocean freight
−$26.50
− Royalty + port
−$18.20
− Assay penalty
−$9.40
= Breakeven buy
$257.90 / t

Know your floor before you bid.

Every cost between the cargo and the customer is modelled from live freight, statutory royalties and the actual assay grade. Change the sell price, the corridor or the spec — the breakeven recomputes instantly, so you never overpay at the mine gate. Price and track to FOB in the port, or all the way to CIF at the final destination.

Live freight Statutory royalties Assay-linked
Logistics in motion

Mine gate to waterline.

Sishen · Fe Hotazel · Mn Rustenburg · Cr Steelpoort · Cr Saldanha Richards Bay Durban Port Ngqura Maputo
Chrome / Mn / Fe rail Chrome to Richards Bay Mine cluster Export port
Live corridors · Hotazel → Ngqura · Sishen → Saldanha · Rustenburg → Richards Bay — tracked to FOB at port or all the way to CIF at destination
By the numbers
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Commodities priced
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Live data sources
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Export corridors modelled
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Trust & traceability

Know exactly who you're trading with.

Every counterparty is KYC-verified and trust-scored, every contract is signed and traceable, and all the official communication on a deal lives in one place. Logistics runs through our partner Fairwater, and trade finance is structured custom to your situation — hedging, letters of credit, credit insurance and escrow on the deal you priced. One platform, end to end, so it's simply easier to do business.

KYC & counterparty verification Traceable contracts & comms Fairwater logistics Custom trade finance
Deal · CR-2026-0418VERIFIED
Highveld Chrome · KYCVerified · A 92
Deal ownerM. Nel ✓
Contract trailSigned · traceable
Tracked toFOB → CIF
EscrowFunded · $15.60M
All official comms on-deal · last update 2 min ago
Inside the deal room

One dashboard. Both sides. Live.

Every deal gets its own room — flow, status, lab checks and escrow in one place, updating in real time for both counterparties. Here's a live chrome trade, end to end.

minemarket.app/deals/CR-2026-0418 LIVE · updated 2 min ago
Chrome ore · 42% Cr₂O₃ · 50,000 t
CR-2026-0418 · Steelpoort → Richards Bay (FOB) → Qingdao (CIF)
● IN TRANSIT MNM. Nel · owner
Seller
Highveld Chrome (Pty) Ltd
Steelpoort, Limpopo · ZA
✓ KYC verified · trust A · 92
Buyer
Qingdao Alloy Imports Ltd
Qingdao, Shandong · CN
✓ KYC verified · trust A · 88
Originated
Priced
Contracted
Lab verified
FOB loaded
In transit
CIF delivered
Settled
Commercials
Sell · CIF Qingdao$312.00/t
Buy · FOB$250.00/t
Breakeven buy$257.90/t
Contract value$15.60M
Net margin$17.30/t · $865k
Lab & quality · SGS
Cr₂O₃ (≥42%)44.2% ✓
Cr:Fe (≥1.5)1.6 ✓
SiO₂ (≤4%)3.1% ✓
Moisture1.2% ✓
Assay statusVERIFIED · no penalty
Escrow & settlement
Held in escrow$15.60M · Funded
Releases onVerified CIF delivery
→ Highveld Chrome (FOB)$12.50M
→ Ocean freight$1.325M
→ Royalty + port$0.91M
→ Your margin$0.865M
Activity · official record
Vessel departed Richards Bay — MV Kalahari Star, ETA Qingdao in 23 daystoday 06:30
50,000 t loaded FOB — draught survey confirmed, B/L issued2 days ago
Lab assay verified — SGS: 44.2% Cr₂O₃, passes 42% spec, no penalty applied4 days ago
Escrow funded · $15.60M — buyer deposit confirmed, held to delivery5 days ago
Term sheet signed — both parties e-signed, contract trail locked6 days ago
On the roadmap

One platform for the whole trade.

MineMarket already prices, tracks and verifies the deal. Next, we close the loop end to end — so money, cargo and paperwork all move in one place.

PLANNED
01

Direct lab integration

Accredited-lab assays flow straight onto the deal — no re-keying, instant spec verification.

PLANNED
02

Embedded trade finance

Custom finance, letters of credit and credit insurance structured and executed in-platform.

PLANNED
03

Payments & split settlement

Pay every stakeholder their share automatically — split payments across all parties on completion.

PLANNED
04

Escrow to completion

Funds held in escrow and released only once the transaction is completed and verified by both sides.

PLANNED
05

Carrier & port integration

Connect sea-freight lines, road haulers, back-of-port operators and port facilities to the live deal.

VISION
06

Mine gate to final mile

One verified record of truth from origin to destination — finance, logistics and compliance in sync.

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Run your next trade on MineMarket.

Built for South African bulk minerals. Priced from breakeven, tracked from mine gate to FOB or CIF, verified end to end — we make it easier to do business.