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Mineral exploration, inside out.

Remote grade and orebody mapping for copper, gold, silver, zinc, nickel, rare earths, and industrial minerals. Screen your claim portfolio, rank targets, and mobilize drills only where the subsurface evidence justifies it.

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15,000 ft
Mapping depth
30+
Calibrated minerals
0
Surface disturbance
140+
Projects worldwide
Open-pit mining operation in mountainous terrain
The problem

Mineral exploration is 99% misses.

Industry statistics are sobering: roughly 1 in 1,000 grassroots mineral prospects advances to an economic mine. Most exploration budgets are spent drilling holes into rock that confirms absence.

Geophysical methods narrow the search, but they tell you about structural anomalies — not about the metal itself. Confirming grade requires drilling, assaying, and waiting.

Inside Earth changes the ratio. Our NMR signature library is calibrated to 30+ target minerals, so we return indicators of the substance, not just the shape of the host rock — before a single hole is collared.

What we deliver

Where the metal is, and how much.

Calibrated deliverables for base metals, precious metals, PGMs, rare earths, and industrial minerals — formatted as GIS layers your exploration team can plug directly into Leapfrog, ArcGIS, or Micromine.

Orebody extent

Lateral outline and vertical extent of mineralized zones — the spatial envelope your resource geologist needs to plan drill spacing.

Grade indicators

Relative grade heatmaps across the target zone — identify the highest-grade cores before committing drilling capital.

Depth-to-ore

Top and base of the mineralized interval — directly informing whether a target is open-pit, underground, or sub-economic at current prices.

Use cases

Where miners deploy us.

Grassroots target generation

Screen entire claim blocks or regional permit packages. Identify where to spend your next exploration dollar.

Drill program design

Position holes on evidence rather than on grids. Significantly reduce holes-to-maiden-resource and shorten the path to an NI 43-101 or JORC declaration.

Mine-site extension

For producing mines: map depth extensions, parallel lodes, and satellite deposits around the existing pit or underground workings.

M&A & royalty diligence

Independently validate subsurface claims before a transaction, streaming deal, or royalty purchase.

By the numbers

Mining economics, moved.

15,000 ft
Max depth
30+
Minerals calibrated
<8 wks
Typical delivery
0
Environmental impact
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Critical minerals

Lithium & brines

Salar, sedimentary, and hard-rock lithium — grade and concentration indicators.

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Energy

Conventional oil & gas

Onshore conventional plays — de-risk exploration before any seismic program mobilizes.

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Shale

Non-conventional O&G

Sweet-spot mapping for shale and tight plays — pick targets on evidence.

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FAQ

Questions engineers and exploration VPs ask us.

Short answers. If something here touches your project, ask us the specific version under NDA.

Which minerals can Inside Earth calibrate for, and how many at once?

We maintain calibration libraries for 30+ minerals spanning base metals (Cu, Pb, Zn, Ni), precious metals (Au, Ag, PGMs), battery/energy minerals (Li, Co, V, U), industrial minerals (K, P, gypsum), and select rare earths. Multiple targets can be mapped in one engagement if they share a host — common in porphyry-copper-gold or lead-zinc-silver systems.

How accurate is grade indication from remote sensing alone?

We return relative grade — classified bands such as sub-economic / marginal / above-cutoff — calibrated to any available historical drilling or assay data in the district. Absolute grade still requires physical sampling. On projects with strong regional calibration data, our indicated-grade classification typically aligns with subsequent assay results at an 80%+ rate.

Can you delineate orebody geometry well enough to inform pit design or underground layout?

At the scoping/PEA stage, yes. We deliver lateral orebody outline, depth-to-top, depth-to-base, and indicative grade zonation — enough to support concept-level pit shells, haul-road planning, or decline positioning. Detailed engineering design still needs drilled densities and geomechanics data.

What does Inside Earth contribute at the mine-site extension / brownfield stage?

This is one of our highest-ROI use cases. For producing mines, we map depth extensions, parallel lodes, and satellite deposits around existing workings. Typically the maps identify 1–3 material near-mine targets that had been unsurveyed or under-drilled. Extension drilling is significantly cheaper than greenfield drilling.

Do you support tailings reclamation and waste-rock characterization?

Yes, as a secondary use case. NMR signatures differentiate between economic and uneconomic phases in historic tailings and waste piles. Several clients have used us to identify reprocessing targets in legacy dumps where original mining missed sub-economic-grade material.

How do Inside Earth reports fit into an NI 43-101 or JORC Public Report workflow?

Our deliverables are pre-drill targeting and prioritization tools, not resource estimates. They inform where to drill first and at what spacing. Resource estimation remains the role of a QP following a compliant drilling program. We routinely work alongside client QPs and consulting QPs in advance of declarations.

Let's scope it

Put your exploration dollars where the metal actually is.

Send us claim boundaries or a regional area of interest. We'll return a project scope, timeline, and indicative pricing — under NDA — within one business day.

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