IMKHONA is an engineer-led mining, logistics, transportation and financial-services company. We diagnose what holds an operation back, fix it, arrange the asset finance, then move the tonnes to market across Southern Africa's export corridors.
IMKHONA (Pty) Ltd is a mining-engineering and business-improvement company — its name drawn from the ‘Improvement Corner’. Founded in 2019 and run by mining, metallurgical and civil engineers, we partner with producers to lift operational stability, profitability and throughput — then move the product, with an owned road fleet feeding rail, warehousing and sea freight at South Africa's major export corridors.
One accountable partner, from the mine face to the ship's hold — diagnosing the bottleneck with an engineer's eye, then carrying the fix through to the loaded vessel.
Every team lead carries 10+ years of field and corporate experience.
Decisions are grounded in data — supported by machine learning and AI, with pricing built around the client's return on investment, not ours.
To rank among South Africa's leading providers of contract mining, road logistics and mine business improvement — and to be a top youth employer in the communities where we operate.
To deliver excellent, profitable outcomes for shareholders, partners and clients across the mining value chain — while pursuing value-creating opportunities beyond mining.
Engineer-led analysis, value-driver modelling and EBITDA diagnostics expose where margin and tonnes are leaking — underground or open-pit.
Performance management, fleet and cost optimisation and commercial restructuring convert loss-making operations into profit — fast.
An integrated mine-to-port chain — road, rail, warehousing and sea — gets the product to market on FOB or CIF terms, reliably.
Deep underground and open-pit experience lets us provide contract mining and run initiatives that improve an operation's stability and profitability — from production planning and process-plant design to a continuous-improvement culture.
We take each production unit back to its designed nameplate capacity. KPIs, value-driver models, Six Sigma and root-cause analysis find the bottlenecks and waste. A live cost-monitoring model then holds the gains.
Our team structures end-to-end supply chains — mine-to-mine, mine-to-port and mine-to-country — with third-party product marketing and market intelligence for mid- to long-term investment, priced in US$/t or US$/km on FOB or CIF terms.
Our leadership ran sales and operations planning, commodity margin and placement analysis and price-protocol modelling for a regional manganese business. Every offtake we place gets the same discipline.
An owned fleet of 27 side-tippers feeds rail sidings, back-of-port warehouses and vessels at five export ports. We manage logistics risk across cost, quantity, transport and storage. Inventory is modelled and stock in transit valued, with each route priced on FOB or CIF terms.
Our experience in mining capital markets lets us arrange tailored asset finance for emerging contract miners. Investment value assessments and EBITDA models show what an asset will return before capital is committed.
Work out an instalmentAn end-to-end supply chain across seven commodity groups — sourced, marketed and delivered from mine to port to country of destination.
Magnetite & hematite
Lumpy & fines
Metallurgical grades
RB1 · RB2 · RB3
Concentrate
Concentrate & cathode
Bulk & bagged
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Beyond moving and marketing minerals, IMKHONA supplies the consumables a mine runs on — diesel and petrol through to processing chemicals and equipment, delivered to site in bulk.
Diesel and petrol supplied in bulk to mines and operations — on-site and on schedule.
Diesel & petrol · bulkGranulated sulphur supplied for mineral processing and downstream use.
Bagged · bulkIndustrial-grade sulphuric acid supplied to mineral-processing operations.
Industrial gradeSourcing and supply of mining plant and equipment to support production.
Source · supplyIndicative road and rail corridors from South Africa's main bulk-mineral belts to Richards Bay, Durban, Gqeberha, Cape Town and Maputo.
Enter your monthly tonnage and one-way route distance. The fleet estimate updates as you type.
Indicative fleet sizing only. The final plan follows a route survey and our weighbridge data.
Send this to our deskEnter the equipment price and how you want to pay. The rate starts at prime plus 2%, and every figure updates as you type.
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Prime is 10.75% from 25 September 2026: the Reserve Bank's 7.25% repo rate plus 3.5 percentage points. Funders price each deal on its credit risk, so your margin may differ from the 2% default.
This is an indicative figure. It is not a quote or an offer of credit, and finance depends on the funder's credit assessment. The rate follows prime, so the instalment changes when the Reserve Bank moves the repo rate. Insurance and tracking are not included, nor are fees you leave blank.
Discuss this finance with usA mining executive with 19+ years across the value chain — from underground production to billion-rand commercial agreements. He holds a BSc in Mining Engineering from the University of the Witwatersrand and has progressed from miner and shift supervisor to integrated-operations strategist and CEO, combining technical depth with commercial and capital fluency.
▸ Milestones below were delivered by IMKHONA's leadership across current and prior executive roles (South32, Anglo American and Musevhe Capital), and form the experience base the firm brings to every mandate.
Whether you need an operation improved, a commodity marketed, or tonnes moved to port — tell us the brief and we'll come back with a plan.