Established in 1998, Resource Capital Funds (RCF) pioneered the concept of a mining-focused private equity fund. RCF is a specialist in mining and partners with companies to build strong, successful and sustainable businesses that strive to produce superior returns for all stakeholders.
RCF’s management team consists of individuals with extensive commercial and technical experience in the mining industry. They typically have undergraduate and postgraduate qualifications in mining, finance or law. Collectively, RCF’s investment professionals have work experience in all of the key mining and finance-related disciplines, including:
- Geology and geostatistics
- Mining engineering in both open pit and underground applications
- Metallurgical engineering
- Process engineering and plant design
- Marketing of intermediate and finished mineral products
- Project development, including construction and start-up
- Project finance for resource projects
- Investment banking for mineral-related companies
- Legal matters, including permitting and title issues
- Financial and valuation analysis of mineral-related companies
- Country and political risk assessment
- Public equity markets
- Public company board of director issues
- Environmental, social and governance matters
RCF has experience in building management teams specifically suited to develop and operate assets and has the resources and networks to source top talent from around the world. As mining specialists, in addition to providing financing, RCF has the financial expertise to actively guide a mining company’s management team through the process of raising capital in the public equity and project financing markets. Additionally, RCF works to align its interests with those of its Limited Partners to become a trusted partner for investors.