Mining and Natural Resource
Overview
Critical minerals directly influence the pace and cost of global energy transition. Vanadium- and titanium-bearing ores, lithium, nickel, manganese, and related resources underpin mobility, grid storage, and advanced materials—while also operating under close environmental and community scrutiny.
Sunway’s experience in this sector draws on an understanding of how China’s mining, refining, and downstream materials ecosystems operate in practice.This visibility helps define realistic development pathways that reflect the asset type and the host country’s infrastructure and policy environment.
For a resource project to progress beyond raw material exports, its technical and commercial design must connect the orebody, processing choices, and downstream offtake needs. Processing routes, technology selection, and product positioning should be coordinated so each step can be permitted, financed, and operated with clear roles and responsibilities.
Our partners can contribute proven processing and industrial technologies, while local partners lead on licensing, workforce and community engagement, and day-to-day regulatory interface. Long-term cooperation structures may be used to maintain transparency in risk allocation and value sharing.
Industry Resources / Partners
Resource platforms and asset holders
Owners of vanadium–titanium magnetite, lithium, nickel, manganese, graphite, phosphate, and other assets relevant to mobility, storage, and infrastructure.
Beneficiation and processing capacity
Concentrators, smelters, and chemical plants that can convert ore into materials and intermediates, including vanadium inputs for flow-battery electrolytes and alloy applications.
Downstream materials and energy-storage players
Producers of battery materials and electrolytes, vanadium redox flow batteries, long-duration storage systems, and steel/alloy manufacturers using vanadium and titanium.
Engineering and project delivery teams
Mine planning, EPC capabilities, including environmental and water-treatment technologies for safer and more efficient operations.
Automation and digital operations tools
Remote operations systems, monitoring platforms, and operational data tools that enhance transparency and performance.
Cases Study
In resource-rich but industrializing regions, stakeholders may explore how vanadium- and titanium-bearing resources—and other critical minerals—fit into longer-term energy transition strategies. Common challenges include limited experience in linking extraction to downstream processing, uncertainty around higher-value offtake, and the need to balance environmental and community expectations with project timelines.
A project in this setting can be designed around defined product pathways rather than generic raw-resource exports processes. Processing routes and product specifications are selected to match credible downstream users, while engineering choices reflect local infrastructure, water, tailings, and operating constraints.
Our technology partners can support processing and industrialization choices, while local operators handle on site operations, workforce development, community and government engagement. With a transparent cooperation framework, the project can evolve from a single transaction into a repeatable industrial pattern that connects resources with new-energy applications.