Tightly scoped mandates. Every answer traceable.

Mandates run across the full equipment universe a producer touches: mill equipment for grinding circuits, mobile fleet for the pit, processing equipment for the recovery flowsheet, and balance-of-plant infrastructure for power, water, tailings, and site services. Coverage spans gold, base metals, industrial minerals, and strategic minerals including lithium, rare earths, and uranium.

Procurement work concentrates on operators deciding between long-lead OEM new build and verified used equipment, where time-to-production economics make used the rational choice on selected classes. Realization mandates run for operators, receivers, and lenders converting physical equipment to recovery dollars.

The oil and gas reading discipline is calibrated against the Western Canadian regulatory record, where the data runs deepest. Selective international engagement extends the same standard to cross-border situations where the deal economics support the additional jurisdictional research.

Realization mandates concentrate on suspended facilities with operational equipment, post-SISP forgotten files that closed without a transaction, receivership files where equipment-track separation produces cleaner outcomes, and operator-direct dispositions. Procurement concentrates on restart, expansion, and recommissioning where OEM lead times are widening and verified used inventory exists.

Engagements run under fixed-scope letters with confidentiality and conflict-check protocols appropriate to fiduciary work. Documentation is suitable for court reporting on disposition strategy, equipment recovery analysis, and channel selection. Timelines respect the receiver's published schedule.

The firm engages on equipment-heavy estates where the going-concern process has closed without transaction, files where surface equipment can be separated from the licence-stack track to produce cleaner cash conversion, and distressed estates where the receiver needs documented realization options rather than a single-channel commitment.

We move quietly. No public auction, no spectacle, before or after the process turns court-supervised. Conflict checks run before any engagement letter is signed, and engagements presenting unresolvable conflicts are declined at intake.

Mining and oil and gas differ in equipment, regulation, and buyer pools. Clearlode serves both because the underlying work is the same: read the asset and the market with our own systems, then select the right buyer rather than defaulting to a single relationship. The buyer-side network includes channels that operate across both sectors and channels that specialize in one.

The cross-sector posture matters for counterparties whose portfolios span sectors: issuers with diversified holdings, lenders with mixed industrial collateral, receivers running concurrent files. The firm engages each file with sector-specific authority while maintaining one institutional standard.