Metals & mining
Industry / Metals & mining
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.
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%
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.
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Our Country Insights service provides ongoing monitoring & analysis on the political, regulatory, policy and stakeholder environments.
Country Insights
Our Country Insights service provides ongoing monitoring & analysis on the political, regulatory, policy and stakeholder environments.