Metals & Mining

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Understand the above ground risks that impact your project

Mining projects are highly exposed to political and regulatory uncertainty. Leadership changes, local opposition, or abrupt policy shifts can stall approvals, increase costs, or threaten your license to operate — undermining even the strongest technical and financial plans.

Horizon Engage provides structured, forward-looking analysis of political, regulatory, and stakeholder risks. Our insights help you anticipate disruptions, engage effectively with local actors, and safeguard project viability throughout the investment cycle.

Mark Cutifani, Board Member

Mark Cutifani joins Horizon Engage to enable Mining investors to stay ahead of above ground risk

"Mining companies today are navigating a remarkably complex landscape where technical success is no longer sufficient on its own. Horizon Engage provides the critical intelligence mining companies require.”

Mark Cutifani, CBE, Horizon Engage Advisory Board Member

Horizon Engage enables you to de-risk projects with:

Forward warning on political, regulatory and social shifts across mining geographies, not just what breaks in the press
One consistent benchmark to compare risk and opportunity across widely different markets
Named decision-makers mapped, with how their influence is moving and how to engage them
Fast, direct answers when something moves faster than a regular cycle
Direct access to in-country experts.

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Making the difference

Thoughtful oversight of above-ground challenges underpins successful investment outcomes.

Companies that rank political risk as a top 5 risk

75%

Rare earth reserves in politically sensitive countries

65%

Lost profits due to geopolitical volatility

$320b

Mining investments exposed to moderate to high geopolitical risk

50%

Mark Cutifani, Former CEO Anglo American

Mining Companies face an increasingly complex operating landscape

"Mining companies today are navigating a remarkably complex landscape where technical success is no longer sufficient on its own. To ensure long-term project success, companies must move beyond traditional risk management and foster a more sophisticated engagement with the societies and environments in which they operate. Horizon Engage provides the critical intelligence required to build those resilient, long-term foundations."

Case Study

Navigating country risk for business development

A North American mining company needed to prioritize and rank new investment opportunities in three countries, using a consistent and structured approach.

Challenge

The company did not have an internal framework for assessing country risk that would allow for an unbiased comparison of above-ground risk across three jurisdictions. Long held perceptions of risk in each country historically led the board of directors to quickly dismiss opportunities based on decades-old experiences.

Solution

Horizon Engage delivered a consistent, data-driven framework for evaluating above-ground risk across jurisdictions, enabling the client to easily identify and plan to manage the most important risk factors in each market.

Impact

The company leveraged Horizon Engage’s Advance country risk screening framework to clearly identify and explain the risks and opportunities in each jurisdiction to its board of directors. This facilitated a more robust fact-based discussion and produced informed investment decisions.