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Est. 2025 · Georgia, USA · Delivered across Brazil

Brazil, made navigable.

We are the in-country partner for foreign buyers, investors and trade agencies entering Brazil's mining and industrial supply chains — supplier qualification, market entry and technical due diligence, delivered by a working geologist rather than a translator with a directory.

Start a brief Scopes & fees

Contract with a U.S. entity. Invoice and settle in USD. Work executed on the ground in Brazil, in Portuguese.

US$ 46 bn Brazilian mineral exports in 2025, on 431 Mt shipped IBRAM, Setor Mineral 2025
US$ 21.3 bn Committed critical-minerals capex, 2026–2030 (+15.2% YoY) IBRAM, Feb 2026
No. 2 World reserves of both graphite (74 Mt) and rare earths (~11.4 Mt TREO) USGS MCS 2026 · ANM
< 5% Brazil's graphite output as a share of China's — the gap that is the sourcing thesis USGS MCS 2026

The problem

The geology is generous. The path to it is not obvious.

Foreign teams arrive with a clear brief — qualify a supplier, screen an asset, build a market. They then spend six months learning that mineral title is federal while licensing is state, that a signed state-level MoU conveys no mineral rights, that the producer they found online is a trader, and that the supplier who can actually machine to their tolerance has no English website and no export department.

We compress that six months into weeks, and we do it with the technical literacy to tell a real capability from a brochure.

Practices

Three mandates, one operator.

Every engagement is run by the principal. Nothing is handed to a junior, and nothing is subcontracted without being named in the scope.

For trade agencies, chambers & delegations

Market entry & soft landing

  • Country & sector briefing for the whole delegation, built on ANM and IBRAM data rather than press clippings
  • One-on-one sessions per company, covering tax, entity structure, import duties and labour exposure with counsel and a CPA on call
  • Distributor and representative sourcing — screened, referenced, and ranked
  • Direct-to-mine agendas: qualified meetings with mine superintendents, supply chain and innovation leads — not booth traffic
  • 90-day conversion follow-up so the mission produces pipeline, not photographs

For industrial buyers diversifying supply

Supplier sourcing & qualification

  • Spec-to-supplier mapping across Brazilian producers and the precision converters most buyers never find
  • Technical qualification against your drawing, tolerance and materials package — density, grain size, resistivity, purity, finish
  • Site visits and capacity audit: real installed capacity, QA regime, RoHS/REACH posture, export readiness
  • Anonymised shortlist first, introductions second — always under a signed non-circumvention agreement
  • Commercial reality check: Incoterms, lead times, logistics from the interior, and the landed cost nobody quoted you

For funds, juniors & strategics

Investment & technical due diligence

  • Geological and technical review of exploration, development and producing assets by a practising exploration geologist
  • ANM title and tenement verification — licence chain, standing, overlaps, encumbrances, and what the state actually licensed
  • Counterparty due diligence on partners, vendors and intermediaries, including beneficial ownership
  • Independent second opinion on resource claims, drilling density and the distance between a press release and a report
  • Land access, ESG and community risk screen — the failure mode that kills more Brazilian projects than geology does

Engagement

Priced in the open.

Indicative scopes and starting fees, so you can size a budget before the first call. All figures in USD, invoiced from the U.S. entity.

Engagement What you receive From Typical duration
Market Scan Desk study: sector map, competitive set, regulatory posture, 10–15 named candidate counterparties with rationale US$ 2,500 10 business days
Supplier Qualification Spec-driven shortlist, technical screening, reference checks, one site visit, introductions under NCA US$ 6,500 + success fee 4–8 weeks
Delegation Program Per company: briefing, one-on-one, distributor sourcing, up to 3 direct-to-mine meetings, report, 90-day follow-up US$ 4,500 / company Mission cycle
In-Country Representation Retained presence: your named point of contact in Brazil, ongoing pipeline development and account coverage US$ 3,500 / month 6-month minimum
Technical Due Diligence Asset-level geological, title and counterparty review with a written independent opinion Quoted per asset 3–6 weeks

A price anchor, for context. The U.S. Commercial Service charges US$ 3,250 for a Gold Key matchmaking service and US$ 1,950 for an Initial Market Check under the ITA fee schedule effective 22 July 2026. We price in that neighbourhood deliberately — and go further, because a government service will not walk a mine site with you, read a tenement file, or tell you the supplier is a trader.

Representative work

What lands on this desk.

Client identities are withheld as a matter of policy. These are anonymised to the level our engagement letters allow.

Supply chain · Europe

Precision graphite components for a German industrial manufacturer

A 20,000-employee European manufacturer of electrical protection equipment needed Brazilian sources for isostatic graphite plates machined to −0.05 mm thickness tolerance, ≤50 ppm ash, RoHS and REACH compliant. The work: separating Brazil's natural-flake producers from the precision converters who can actually hold the spec, and qualifying the second group.

Trade mission · Asia-Pacific

METS delegation soft landing at Brazil's largest mining exhibition

A government trade agency brought a group of mining-equipment and technology firms to Brazil and needed more than a booth: market-access strategy, tax and structure implications, distributor sourcing, and up to three qualified direct-to-mine meetings per company. Scoped and quoted as a per-company program with 90-day conversion tracking.

Capital · Asset screening

Exploration-stage asset screening in Brazil

Screening early-stage gold, copper, zinc, barite, tungsten and cassiterite prospects in Brazil for investors who need a geologist's read before a data room — including a tungsten-tin prospect carried through initial technical validation.

Regulatory · Title & licensing

Reading what a Brazilian mineral title actually conveys

Foreign counterparties routinely mistake a state-level agreement, an environmental licence or a filed application for a right to explore or mine. The work: reading the ANM process file, tracing the licence chain, identifying overlaps and encumbrances, and stating plainly what the holder can and cannot legally do — before money moves.

Why Brazil, why now

The numbers moved before the narrative did.

R$ 298.8 bn

Sector revenue in 2025, up 10.3%

Mining delivered a US$ 37.6 bn trade surplus — 55% of Brazil's entire national trade surplus. Exports rose 6.2% in value on 431 Mt shipped, up 7.1% in volume.

IBRAM, Setor Mineral 2025 (Feb 2026)
R$ 70 bn

Vale's Novo Carajás program, 2025–2030

Copper output rising ~32% to about 350,000 t/yr and iron ore to 200 Mt/yr by 2030 — a decade of tier-one supplier demand being written now.

Vale, announced 14 Feb 2025
R$ 6.9 bn

Private investment into Brazil's lithium valley since 2023

Production quadrupled to 944,000 t in 2024. The region's own stated bottlenecks — road infrastructure, financing, technology and downstream value-add — read as a market-entry brief written by the government itself.

CNN Brasil, 20 Jun 2026
R$ 7 bn

Incentives in the pending critical minerals policy (PNMCE)

A R$ 2 bn guarantee fund plus R$ 5 bn in tax credits over five years for beneficiation and transformation projects. Approved by the Chamber of Deputies on 6 May 2026; before the Senate. Not yet law — which is exactly when positioning is cheap.

Câmara dos Deputados, 6 May 2026
~7,000

Mineral areas in ANM's 9th availability round — the largest ever

Roughly 110,000 areas sit in the availability backlog, and the B3 contract requires at least three auctions a year. Ground position in Brazil is about to get cheaper and more competitive at the same time.

Diário do Comércio, 18 May 2026
State ≠ federal

The distinction most foreign buyers get wrong

Two Brazilian state governments signed critical-minerals cooperation agreements with the United States in March 2026, on rare earths and on lithium. Both are non-binding, both can accelerate licensing and grant state tax relief — and neither conveys exploration or mining rights, which remain federal. Reading a headline as a permit is an expensive mistake.

Argus, 18 Mar 2026

The principal

A geologist who also reads the contract.

Paulo Costa is an exploration geologist with roughly a decade in Brazilian and U.S. mining, spanning exploration, operations and continuous improvement. He remains a practising geologist in a full-time senior exploration role in the United States — which is why the technical judgement he brings to a Brazilian asset or a supplier's shop floor is current rather than remembered.

The commercial half is deliberate: an MBA in Business and Finance, and doctoral research spanning artificial intelligence, critical minerals and the energy transition. Brazilian by nationality, U.S.-based by residence, and fluent in the working language of both a mine superintendent and a purchasing director.

Professional and family networks run the length of Brazil's mining and industrial map, from the northern iron and copper districts to the industrial south.

Start here

Send the brief. Get a real answer.

Every enquiry is read by the principal and answered within two business days — with an honest view of whether this is work we should take.

Email paulo@brazilminingconsulting.com
Coverage Brazil nationwide — mining districts, industrial regions and the federal regulator in Brasília.
Response time Two business days, from the principal, in English or Portuguese.

Confidential. Mutual NDA available on request before any detail is shared.