Yalira is structured around institutional credit, proprietary investment and mineral economic interests.
We start with the asset and its constraints, not a predetermined financial product.
The Opportunity
A development-ready project may lack suitable senior finance.
A company may hold a credible asset but require restructuring before it can be financed.
Mineral inventory may have no established pathway to institutional capital.
The problem is not always a shortage of capital. Often, it is the condition of the asset when capital is asked to enter.
The Platform
Institutional Secured Finance
External senior capital for qualifying mining projects.
Helix is developing senior secured financing repaid from a finite pledge of future production. Yalira designs the credit structure; institutional investors provide the principal. The mining company retains ownership, production beyond the pledge and future resource upside, without equivalent new equity.
Stage: Architecture developed.
Next milestone: first financing.
Ownership & Transformation
Proprietary investment where intervention can create value.
Catalyst considers only opportunities in which it intends to take ownership. It targets companies with credible mineral assets constrained by capital structure, legacy liabilities, governance or technical readiness, works to resolve the constraint, and remains exposed as an owner to any value created.
Stage: Investment architecture developed.
Next milestone: first investment.
Mineral Economic Interests
A potential capital pathway for qualifying mineral interests.
Yalira Digital is designing a model for institutional participation in economic interests associated with in-ground minerals, initially gold. Issuance would require enforceable rights, independent technical assessment, independent valuation, governance, and legal and regulatory validation.
Stage: In development.
No mineral inventory admitted or instruments issued.
Each business must establish its own record before it scales.
Yalira funds the capability; it does not intend to fund every underlying asset from its own balance sheet.
How Yalira Works
Opportunities enter through shared origination and are assessed on technical evidence, economics, legal rights and financing requirements before any capital pathway is considered. Yalira draws opportunities from established technical and resource-sector relationships. Its initial focus is Australian mining assets, particularly gold.
Helix, Catalyst and Yalira Digital each apply their own standards. An opportunity may qualify for one pathway, more than one over time, or none.
Potential capital pathways · Separate approval standards
Where another Yalira business holds an interest, the decision requires non-conflicted approval.
The People
Founder & Managing Director
Damian has held interests in North Queensland gold projects since 2015, with experience in project acquisition, resource development and commercial structuring.
He founded Yalira and led the development of its architecture. He is Chairman of Crystal Oak Gold and a Director of Pentlands Minerals.
Co-Founder & Director
Brett co-founded Club Assist in 1991 and helped build it into an international business across Australia, New Zealand and North America.
Australian motoring clubs acquired 50% in 2001, and he sold his remaining interest in 2017. At Yalira, he contributes commercial judgement, governance and organisational experience.
Operations Manager
Matt has nearly a decade of mining and exploration experience across diamond, gold and critical minerals projects. He has served as Site Senior Executive on projects in Queensland and Western Australia.
Yalira intends to add senior credit, finance and governance capability as execution progresses.
Contact
Yalira engages selectively with capital providers, mining companies and strategic counterparties.
Institutional investors, lenders and family offices interested in resource credit and investment.
Capital Partner EnquiryCompanies with credible mining or mineral assets considering development finance, recapitalisation or a strategic investor.
Mining Company Enquiry