Our critical minerals and mining security teams help protect mine sites, processing areas, transport corridors, workforce movements, and high-value mineral supply chains in complex and contested environments. SOM provides threat and vulnerability assessments, site security planning, corridor protection, ESG/SLO support, local-force development, and security-force training to reduce disruption, protect production, and strengthen community trust.
Critical minerals and mining operations face serious risks: illegal mining, theft, smuggling, protests, labor unrest, insider threats, corruption pressure, community instability, logistics disruption, and attacks on transport routes or supply-chain nodes. These threats can stop production, increase insurance exposure, damage investor confidence, and weaken the company’s social license to operate.
SOM builds security programs for mining and critical minerals operations by combining threat and vulnerability assessments, mine-site security, corridor and convoy protection, access-control planning, local-force development, civil affairs support, ESG/SLO alignment, and emergency-response planning. Our approach helps operators protect people, assets, production, and community relationships.
S.O.M brings Special Operations leadership, Africa and Latin America experience, ISO 18788 & 9001 aligned practices, and a practical understanding of security in remote and high-risk environments. We do not just guard the mine — we help protect the full operating ecosystem: the site, the workforce, the routes, the surrounding community, and the supply chain.
Mine-site threat and vulnerability assessments
Physical security planning for mining operations
Site access control and perimeter security
Corridor and convoy protection
Transport-route risk assessment
Illegal mining and theft-risk mitigation
Insider-threat and contractor-risk planning
ESG/SLO support and community-stability planning
Civil affairs support for schools, clinics, and local engagement
Local-force development and security-force training
Emergency-response and evacuation planning
Security post orders and SOP development
Executive briefing for mine operators, investors, and project leadership
Strategic Operations & Management (S.O.M) is a Service-Disabled veteran-owned firm providing customized security, information, and risk-management solutions for clients across the globe. We build security programs for environments where conventional firms do not operate.
