Our mining practice targets high‑potential exploration and development plays, especially in Argentina and Africa. We focus on copper, gold, and iron ore opportunities where legal consolidation, technical validation, and smart capital can unlock value.
Minera Geometales — Strategic Partner
Minera Geometales, part of the Macri Group, is an Argentine junior mining company focused on identifying and consolidating high‑potential areas — particularly in the western provinces of Mendoza and San Juan. The firm’s strengths include the legal consolidation of property ownership and the capacity to fund exploration toward establishing resources. Blackwood collaborates with Minera Geometales on select opportunities where our capital and advisory capabilities accelerate development.
Signature Project: Hajigak Iron‑Ore (Afghanistan)
Located in Bamyan/Maidan Wardak, the Hajigak deposit is Afghanistan’s and the world's largest known iron‑ore resource. Public sources estimate ~1.8 billion tonnes of ore across multiple bodies, with iron concentrations reported in the ~62–67% range. Development at this scale requires significant mine, rail, processing, and power infrastructure.
Within this context, Blackwood’s Co‑Founder Wasee Panah served as lead partner/consultant and chief negotiator to an Indian consortium on a cross‑border resources transaction linked to Hajigak — aligning commercial terms among capital providers, technical partners, and government stakeholders, while navigating regional geopolitical sensitivities. The initiative exemplifies Blackwood’s capability to execute complex, multi‑party deals in frontier environments.
The strength and steady growing of SIDECO AMERICANA are based on four main pillars:
- Its capacity to generate joint ventures with international leading partners.
- Its experience to arrange projects financial structures, including trust implementation.
- Its contribution with highly professional and experienced management to the companies in witch it participates.
- The constant development of quality assurance processes, aiming to comply with Clients' needs and expectations.
Nowadays, Sideco Americana's major business areas are Engineering and Construction, Real State Development, Waste treatment, IT solutions and investments, CNG, Road and Highway concessions, Electric power Generation and Transmission and Mining. Argentina is still "the last western frontier in mining".
Although Argentina is potentially a mining country, it was only since 1995 that it started to grow in this field due to new laws that allowed so.
These laws established four basic aspects to develop mining investments:
- Law N 24.196 Mining Investments: it gives stability on taxation schemes
- Law N 24.402 VAT finance for assets and infrastructure works
- Law N 24.228 Federal Mining Agreement: it unify administrative procedures, it favours large scale exploration and eliminates taxation distortion
Due to the legal framework, fees to be paid to provincial governments will never exceed 3% of the mineral value at the mine.
In 2005 more than 60 companies were performing exploration and exploitation in Argentina, most of them (57%) Canadian based companies. It is expected in the short term an important growing in total investments related to mine openings.
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