Africa's rare earth company
Orion Materials is Africa's only fully integrated rare earth company — with capabilities spanning the entire supply chain from mining and processing to advanced refining and materials production. Our products enable the technologies that power the modern world.
We are Kenyan-founded, Africa-focused, and built on the conviction that the continent with the world's richest mineral reserves should own the supply chain that delivers them to the world.
Orion Materials is Africa's only fully integrated rare earth producer with capabilities spanning the entire supply chain — from mining and processing to advanced refining and materials production. We operate across the African continent, anchored by one of the world's largest and highest-grade rare earth and niobium deposits.
Our products enable innovation across the critical sectors of the modern economy — transportation, clean energy, robotics, defence, and aerospace. Every electric vehicle motor, every wind turbine generator, every advanced guidance system depends on rare earth materials. We are building the African supply chain that the world urgently needs.
The global rare earth market is dominated by a single supplier. Governments and manufacturers across the United States, Europe, Japan, and beyond are actively searching for reliable, responsible alternatives. Africa holds the answer. Orion is the company delivering it.
We were founded on a simple but radical idea: that Africa does not need more extraction. It needs more ownership. Every project we develop is structured so that African nations, African communities, and the African workforce are genuine principals in what comes out of the ground — not passive recipients of what remains after everyone else has taken their share.
The minerals beneath this continent have powered the world's progress for a century. It is time they powered Africa's.
Orion Materials — founding conviction
We are building Africa's first fully integrated rare earth supply chain. Responsible extraction. Advanced processing. High-purity materials. Delivered to the manufacturers and industries powering the modern world — entirely on African soil.
Responsible extraction of rare earth ore from one of the world's highest-grade carbonatite deposits, operating to rigorous environmental and community standards.
Through multiple stages of beneficiation and flotation on African soil, raw ore is transformed into high-purity rare earth concentrate ready for refining.
Individual rare earth elements are separated and refined into high-purity oxide and metal compounds — the critical step that turns concentrate into industrial-grade materials.
Refined rare earth compounds are converted into advanced materials and value-added products for manufacturers and industries across the global economy.
Every electric vehicle motor depends on rare earth permanent magnets. We supply the materials enabling the global transition to clean transport.
Wind turbine generators require high-performance rare earth magnets. Our materials are at the foundation of the global energy transition.
Advanced guidance systems, radar equipment, and aerospace components require rare earth materials of the highest purity and reliability.
The precision motors and actuators driving industrial automation rely on permanent magnet technology built from our refined materials.
Smartphones, audio systems, medical devices, and computing hardware all depend on miniaturised rare earth magnets and compounds.
Our niobium production strengthens the high-performance steels used in pipelines, jet engines, and critical infrastructure globally.
We are not extractors. We are builders. Every decision we make is oriented toward one outcome — a critical minerals supply chain that creates lasting wealth and industrial capability in Africa, not just a revenue stream that depletes it.
We control every stage of the supply chain — ensuring quality, security, and value remain on African soil from extraction through to advanced materials production.
We engage communities first. Their trust is not a compliance box — it is the foundation without which nothing lasting can be built.
We do not make promises. We build mechanisms. Every commitment is backed by a contractual obligation or public reporting requirement that cannot be undone.
Our ambition is Africa's critical minerals infrastructure — the processing capability and industrial base that turns a geological advantage into a generational one.
Orion Materials is actively evaluating five of Africa's most significant unlicensed rare earth deposits — each representing a world-class opportunity to build the sovereign African supply chain the global economy urgently needs.
A carbonatite intrusion in Kenya's coastal Kwale County — one of the world's top five rare earth deposits by grade, with an estimated 5% total rare earth oxide content and significant niobium reserves. Situated 50km south of Mombasa with direct port access. No active mining licence. Orion is engaged in formal government and community processes.
One of East Africa's most advanced light rare earth deposits — a high-grade bastnaesite occurrence with REO content ranging 60–70% in ore veins. The previous development licence was revoked by the Tanzanian government in 2018 and a $27 million settlement was completed in 2025, clearing the path for fresh development. The deposit is now fully available for re-licensing.
The highest-grade rare earth deposit in Africa — with JORC-compliant estimates of over 1.2 million tonnes grading up to 55% TREO in high-grade ore zones, and over 22% TREO across broader resources. Neodymium and praseodymium account for over 80% of basket value. Operations were suspended in 2021 following a government dispute and the asset remains on care and maintenance, fully written down and available for fresh partnership.
One of only two xenotime-type heavy rare earth deposits under development worldwide. Located in the Epembe–Lofdal belt near Sesfontein, the deposit contains exceptionally high proportions of dysprosium and terbium — the heavy rare earths critical for high-temperature magnets in electric vehicles, offshore wind turbines, and defence systems. No mining licence has been issued. The current lease arrangement is in feasibility stage, presenting a structured entry opportunity.
A carbonatite-hosted rare earth deposit in Mozambique's Manica Province — a geologically prospective region within the Mozambique Belt, a major structural corridor known to host significant mineralisation. The deposit remains at exploration stage with no mining licence granted, sitting in a jurisdiction that has actively positioned mining as a national economic priority and is open to international development partnership.
We welcome conversations with development finance institutions, strategic offtake partners, technical partners, and governments who believe that Africa's critical mineral future should belong to Africa.