Understand your ground
Everything you already have, brought into one validated, georeferenced picture of your project and its district.
Geological data analysis and 3D modelling for early-stage mineral projects
Interactive maps, 3D models and analysis of your project, yours to keep
Built from your data and the public record, and analysed to show what no single source can: which ground stands out, how far each result can be trusted and what to do next. Every file opens in a browser.
Intro
How it works
Three steps take a project from scattered files and public records to new information about the ground, and to the decision it supports.
Integrate
Drillholes, structural measurements, geophysics, geochemistry, mapping and topography: what you hold, plus what we find in public sources, checked and merged into one georeferenced database.
Analyse and model
We analyse the combined data to produce information that none of the sources holds alone: anomalies measured against the local geology, estimates with a stated margin of error, 3D models and ranked targets. Where the data allows, each result is tested against values held back from the analysis.
Decide and show
The result answers the question you came with: which ground to stake, whether old assays can be trusted, where to sample or drill, what a zone could hold. It comes as browser-based maps and models that you own and can put in front of anyone.
Scoped to your question, your budget and what the data can honestly support.
Services
From scattered data to a decision
Three stages, nine services. Take one or all of them: each is scoped to your question, your data and your budget.
Decide where to drill
Targets ranked against your budget, with the evidence behind each one and a programme staged around your funding.
Make the case
What the ground could hold, stated as ranges your data can support and presented so every audience can open it.
Stories
Work we have done
Real engagements, anonymised. Each one says what the result can support and what it cannot.
Gold project · Argentine Puna
A district on one map, before the field season
Public geophysics, geology, stream-sediment geochemistry and neighbouring titles within 20 km of a project, combined into one browser map and used to place the next sampling points.
Regional geochemistry · Argentine Puna
Can fifty-year-old assays be trusted?
About 3,500 legacy stream-sediment samples, a third of them re-assayed with modern methods. We tested, metal by metal, whether the old values improve the map. For copper they do; for lead and zinc they do not.
Guides
Guides to exploration data
Plain explanations of the methods and terms behind our work: what they can support, and where they stop.
What is a gossan?
The rusty cap left when sulphide minerals weather at surface: how it forms, how to read it, and why not every gossan sits above ore.
Prospectivity mapping explained
How geology, geochemistry and geophysics are combined into a ranking of ground, which methods suit sparse data, and what the map cannot tell you.
Can you use legacy assay data?
Old assays are cheap and plentiful, but methods and locations differ from modern data. How to test whether they can be used, and when to leave them out.
Exploration target versus mineral resource
Both are expressed in tonnes and grade. One is a conceptual range, the other a classified estimate. What separates them under JORC and NI 43-101.
Public geological data in Latin America
Geological surveys and mining cadastres publish maps, geochemistry, geophysics and tenure at no cost. What exists, and how to use it with care.
What a 3D model can show from twelve drillholes
Too few holes for a resource estimate, enough for a useful model. What sparse drilling can and cannot support in three dimensions.
Contact
Discuss your project
Tell us what data you have and what you need to decide.
Write to us directly
Thomas Houweling
Latin America and Europe, remote