Where technical excellence meets commercial confidence.

Jolene van Rensburg helps mining OEMs, suppliers and project owners turn engineering capability into partnerships, pipeline and growth across Africa.

What I do

Three ways to move mining forward.

As a metallurgical engineer consultant with a commercial brief, I work where technology, projects and markets meet.

For OEMs, technology and service providers

Fractional business development and Africa market entry for equipment makers and technology providers who have a better product than a pipeline.

For brands that want technical products seen

Mining content partnerships, conference activations and speaking that make technical products visible to the people who buy them.

For junior miners and project owners

Opportunity screening, technical-commercial due diligence and introductions to equipment partners, offtakers and funders across African mining.

Why Alana Ventures

Most consultants are either technical or commercial. Mining business development works best when one person is genuinely both.

9 countries · Africa & EuropePipeline built from junior miners to global majors

01
An engineer who speaks commercial
I can read your testwork, question your recoveries and then explain the value to a CFO in a sentence.
02
A commercial lead who speaks plant
Sixteen years around concentrators, separators and control rooms. I know what a plant manager actually worries about.
03
Flowsheets into business cases
Technical capability translated into payback, risk and growth: the language that gets budgets approved.
04
A network that answers
Relationships across mines, EPCMs, OEMs and junior miners in Africa, Europe and the Americas.
05
Content that gets seen
Technical products deserve better than a brochure. I make them visible to the people who buy them.