Skip to content
ARAMAromatics & Minerals
Quote basket, 0 itemsCart, 0 items

African Rare Aromatics & Minerals

ARAM

Africa’s rare materials, verified at origin.

A sourcing and supply partner for rare natural aromatics and strategic minerals. We identify supply at origin, verify counterparties and documentation, coordinate testing and logistics, and connect qualified buyers with available material.

Explore aromaticsExplore mineralsRequest supply
  1. 01 Source
  2. 02 Verify
  3. 03 Document
  4. 04 Supply

Images: Namib Desert, Sossusvlei, Namibia (FrankBothe, CC BY-SA 4.0) · Malachite, Zaire (now DR Congo) (JJ Harrison, CC BY-SA 3.0) · Essential-oil distillery, Nosy Be, Madagascar (HoneyGaLe, CC BY-SA 3.0) · Boswellia sacra, Wadi Dowkah, Dhofar, Oman (Krzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz, CC BY-SA 4.0)

  • 2Specialist verticals

01How ARAM works

Source. Verify. Document. Supply.

What ARAM is
  1. Copper stills under an open shed at an essential-oil distillery

    01Source

    Origin relationships

    We identify supply at origin — distillers and cooperatives for aromatics; licensed miners, processors and exporters for minerals.

    Essential-oil distillery — Nosy Be, Madagascar — third-party operation · HoneyGaLe, CC BY-SA 3.0

  2. Shelved crates of drill-core samples in a core archive

    02Verify

    Counterparty and documentation checks

    Company KYC, beneficial ownership, licences and sanctions screening on both sides, before volumes or terms are shared.

    Drill-core sample archive — Loppi, Finland — reference image · kallerna, CC BY-SA 4.0

  3. 03Document

    Specifications, assays and certificates

    COA, GC-MS and SDS for aromatics; assay, certificate of origin and chain-of-custody files for minerals — attached to the lot.

    View specimen documents
  4. Gantry cranes over the Durban container terminal with a vessel at berth

    04Supply

    Buyer-specific procurement and logistics

    Samples to container loads, spot parcels to offtake — quoted against the buyer's specification and routed through the right corridor.

    Durban container terminal — Durban, South Africa — third-party operation · Pechristener, CC BY-SA 3.0

What ARAM stands for

  1. African

    Sourced at origin across the continent, with the country and region declared on every listing.

  2. Rare

    Materials that are scarce, strategic or hard to source well — and priced like it.

  3. Aromatics

    Essential oils, absolutes, resins and woods for perfumery, cosmetics and incense.

  4. Minerals

    Battery, strategic and precious minerals, with export rules and due diligence built in.

02Two product categories

One platform. Two specialisms.

Aromatics and minerals are sourced, verified and documented to the same standard — each with the specialist detail its buyers expect.

Translucent amber tears of Siam benzoin resin

Aromatics

29 natural materials

Frankincense, myrrh, oud, sandalwood, rose otto, jasmine and vetiver — oils, absolutes, resins and woods with lot-level documentation and sample-first purchasing.

Enter aromatics

Plate III · Siam benzoin — Styrax tonkinensis resin — Reference specimen
Maša Sinreih in Valentina Vivod, CC BY-SA 3.0

A lustrous steel-grey carrollite crystal set in white calcite

Minerals

22 commodities

Cobalt, copper, lithium, graphite, rare earths, germanium and gold — with USGS supply data, export rules and compliance gates on every commodity.

Enter minerals

Plate IV · Carrollite — cobalt-copper ore — Kambove, Katanga, DR Congo
Strickja, Public domain

03The specimen atlas

What we source, as it comes from the ground and the tree.

Reference specimens of the materials on ARAM. Each plate states the specimen's true locality — they illustrate the material, not a specific lot.

04African origins

Where the material comes from.

33 African countries on the record — aromatic origins, mineral sources, tracked projects and the export corridors that serve them. Choose a layer, then a country.

  • Aromatic origin
  • Mineral source
  • Both
  • Corridor only
  • Tracked project

COD

DR Congo

7 minerals · 2 projects · 2 corridors

Minerals

Tracked projects

Third-party projects — intelligence, not ARAM supply.

Export corridors

Ethiopian highlands — Amhara Region, Ethiopia · Ondřej Žváček, CC BY 2.5

05Mineral opportunities

Ten African minerals buyers are asking for.

Ranked on global demand, Africa's share of supply, room for an independent sourcing partner and compliance complexity.

All 22 minerals16 pipeline projects

Projects are market intelligence on third-party operations — not ARAM supply. Available material is quoted against your specification.

  1. 01CobaltCoExport-restricted → Contract
  2. 02CopperCuSpot + Contract
  3. 03Rare Earths — Light (NdPr)Nd, PrPre-production pipeline
  4. 04LithiumLiContract / Pre-production (export-restricted in Zimbabwe, Namibia)
  5. 05GraphiteCContract + Pre-production
  6. 06Tantalum (Coltan)TaContract — verified 3TG supply only
  7. 07GermaniumGeContract (limited) + Pipeline
  8. 08Platinum-Group MetalsPt, Pd, RhContract (concentrate) / Spot (refined, licensed)
  9. 09ManganeseMnSpot + Contract
  10. 10GoldAuSpot — verified buyers only

Work with ARAM

Buying

Tell us the material, specification, volume and destination. We come back with verified supply.

Request mineral supplyRequest an aromatics quote

Supplying

Producers, distillers and exporters in Africa: list with ARAM and reach verified international buyers.

Become a supplierHow verification works

This site is populated with clearly marked sample data for demonstration. Quantities, lots, offers and documentation shown are illustrative and are not offers to sell.