Global Mining Marketplace
Mining data exists. It's just buried in dozens of government databases, disconnected portals, and outdated spreadsheets. Finding what you need means searching across multiple systems, manually cross-referencing records, and hoping nothing was missed.
We're connecting it all.
Data that used to take months to piece together now takes seconds.
Every major industry has its Bloomberg. Finance has Bloomberg Terminal. Real estate has CoStar. Equipment has RB Global. But mining, a $93.7 billion M&A market, still runs on phone calls, PDFs, and brokers who gatekeep information. Mine Market is filling that gap. The first platform that combines a live marketplace, AI-powered intelligence, and a 68 million record data moat, purpose-built for the mining industry.
"I own 24 tenements and a 43 km² gold/nickel/cobalt project. I built Mine Market because the tools I needed to buy, sell, and evaluate mining projects simply did not exist."
Mining M&A hit $93.7B in 2025, a 13-year high. Critical mineral demand is projected to nearly triple by 2030. The entire industry still runs on phone calls, PDFs, and handshake deals.
Vertical marketplaces that digitized fragmented industries have created massive value. Mining is the last major industry without one.
| Platform | Industry | Market Cap | What They Did |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bloomberg | Financial Data | $50B+ | Aggregated financial data into one terminal |
| Zillow | Residential RE | $10B | Digitized listings, added data layers (Zestimate) |
| CoStar | Commercial RE | $18B | Aggregated commercial data, analytics platform |
| RB Global | Equipment | $18B | Online auctions for heavy equipment |
| Airbnb | Short-term Rental | $79B | Marketplace + trust layer for fragmented inventory |
| Mine Market | Mining Assets | Building | Marketplace + AI intelligence for mining projects |
These companies are valued on the data moats and recurring revenue they built. 85% of mining companies have zero access to digital intelligence tools — the incumbents price them out at $100K+/year. Mine Market opens the market at $499/seat.
$93.7B in mining M&A activity in 2025, a 13-year high. Majors are acquiring juniors at record pace. The transaction volume is there, but the infrastructure to discover and execute deals is not.
Mining Weekly / S&P Global, 2025
EV, defence, and energy transition are driving demand for lithium, cobalt, rare earths, and nickel. Governments are funding exploration. The supply gap is accelerating.
IEA Global Critical Minerals Outlook, 2024
Small explorers can't raise capital or find buyers efficiently. They need a platform that reduces discovery friction and makes their projects visible to global investors.
GlobalData Mining M&A Deal Trends, 2025-2026
LLMs can now synthesize geological, regulatory, and market data into investor-grade intelligence in seconds. Government open data portals have matured. The building blocks exist today that didn't exist 24 months ago.
Nine products live today, with more in the pipeline. Each one feeds data into the next, so the platform gets smarter with every product we launch.
Global marketplace for mining projects, tenements, and mineral assets. Free to list with direct buyer-seller connections, in-platform messaging, NDA signing, watchlists, and seller analytics.
AI-generated geological intelligence for any tenement or project. 6 role-based perspectives (buyer, explorer, investor, geologist, agent, prospector). Each report scores data confidence so you know exactly how much to trust every claim. Keep digging with the built-in AI advisor.
Interactive mining intelligence map. Toggle live data layers including tenements, drillholes, deposits, ASX discoveries, and activity hotspots. Filter by commodity, scan any radius, and generate AI opportunity briefs for any piece of ground. The visual layer that ties the platform together.
Your neighbour just hit gold. Nearology watches every ASX drill result in real time and instantly flags the tenements sitting right next door. Before the market catches on, you already know. The proximity intelligence layer that turns someone else's discovery into your next opportunity.
Terminal-style command interface for mining data. Query tenements, drillholes, assays, deposits, and market data with natural language. The power user's entry point to 68M records.
AI-powered mining intelligence research, combined with a curated news feed from every major mining source. Market analysis, data spotlights, and regional deep dives. Every claim fact-checked against Scout's ground truth database. Not LLM hallucination, verified intelligence backed by 68M records.
First-pass project valuation in seconds. Pulls JORC resources, comparable transactions, live commodity prices, and infrastructure proximity to give you a ballpark before you spend $50K+ on a formal valuation. The Zestimate for mining projects.
Dedicated marketplace for mining equipment. Integrated PFT (Permission to Transfer) forms for regulated equipment. Compliance workflows and seller verification. Separate from the tenement marketplace but cross-linked.
Investor-ready pitch decks generated from your project data. AI pulls geology, drilling, deposits, infrastructure, and market context to build a polished presentation you'd normally pay a consultant thousands for. Ready to download and present in minutes, not weeks.
Not an API wrapper. Mine Market has ingested, normalized, and indexed 68M records from government sources across Australia and Canada into a unified PostgreSQL + MySQL datastore. 96% source ingest rate. 99% record ingest rate. 100% quality score.
The entire platform, every line of code, every API integration, every data pipeline, built by a single founder. This is the depth of execution investors are backing.
"This is exactly what the industry has always needed."
"I've never seen anything like this."
"This is just wow."
Mine Market is sold to the mining company. Each role within the organisation gets different value from the same platform, and each role is a seat.
Reviews Insight Reports for board papers and acquisition decisions. Uses Mine Value to sanity-check offer prices. Needs government-sourced data to back decisions worth millions.
The daily power users. Run full technical reports with government bedrock data, drill assays, and exploration targets. Use Ranger AI for geological Q&A. Replace days of manual portal searching with minutes.
Sources JV partners and farm-in opportunities through the Marketplace. Lists company assets to attract investment. Uses comparable transactions to benchmark deals and pitch decks for capital raising.
Existing players are either brokers with websites, generic deal platforms, or expensive data terminals. None combine marketplace, AI intelligence, and a verified data moat.
| Feature | MinesOnline | Brokers | S&P Global | Mine Market |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Transaction fees | 5% | 5-10% | N/A (data only) | Subscription fee |
| AI intelligence | No | No | No | 6-perspective reports + Canary |
| Own data moat | No | Manual PDFs | Yes ($100K+/yr) | 68M+ records, self-growing |
| Discovery alerts | No | No | Limited | Nearology (real-time) |
| Interactive mine map | No | No | No | Live data layers + AI briefs |
| AI pitch decks | No | No | No | Investor-ready in minutes |
| Project valuation | No | Manual | Partial | MineValue engine |
| Cost to buyers | Free browse | $10K+/mo retainer | $100K+/yr enterprise | Free marketplace + $499/seat |
| Modern UX | Dated | PDF/email | Enterprise | Built for this generation |
The rarest founder profile in mining tech: deep domain expertise combined with the technical ability to build the entire platform solo. This combination does not exist at any competitor.
One person built the entire platform. Key-person risk is real.
Mitigation: Codebase is well-structured with clear separation of concerns. First hire (with pre-seed funds) is a senior engineer. Architecture documented. AI-assisted development (Claude Code) means the codebase is clean and transferable.
Marketplaces need both supply and demand. Building critical mass takes time.
Mitigation: Free listings remove supply friction entirely. More importantly, the marketplace is just one of 9 products. AI reports, Mine Map, Nearology, and the Terminal all provide standalone value without a single listing. Users come for the intelligence, stay for the data, and transact when the opportunity is right.
Government APIs can change, break, or go offline without notice.
Mitigation: All 68M+ records are ingested into our own databases. We never serve data from live government APIs. Scout monitors every source for changes and automatically discovers replacement endpoints when APIs break. We own the data, not just the pipe.
S&P Global, a well-funded startup, or a mining major could enter this space.
Mitigation: S&P charges $100K+/yr for data alone and has no marketplace. Brokers have no technical capability to build one. A new startup would need to reverse-engineer government data across Australia and Canada, build state-specific normalizers, and solve the same domain-AI challenges. That's 12+ months of work before writing a single line of product code. The moat is real and it compounds daily.
Per-seat pricing that scales with team size. Every tier includes full platform access, AI intelligence, and the 68M record data moat.
We only need 1% market penetration to hit $6M ARR. Zero comparable platforms exist today.
Based on S&P Global Market Intelligence (~10,000 tracked companies with known projects) plus formal private operators registered with national mining authorities (MSHA, DMIRS, GSQ, TMX). Excludes quarries, aggregates, and artisanal mining.
Based on average $30K/year per company (5 seats at blended pricing). 20,000 addressable mining companies globally, currently serving 1,809 in Australia + Canada.
| Metric | Conservative | Base Case | Aggressive |
|---|---|---|---|
| Year 1 | |||
| Companies | 15 | 40 | 80 |
| Total Seats | 75 | 200 | 400 |
| MRR | $37K | $100K | $200K |
| ARR | $450K | $1.2M | $2.4M |
| Year 2 | |||
| Companies | 40 | 120 | 200 |
| Total Seats | 200 | 600 | 1,000 |
| MRR | $100K | $300K | $500K |
| ARR | $1.2M | $3.6M | $6M |
| Year 3 | |||
| Companies | 80 | 200 | 400 |
| Total Seats | 400 | 1,000 | 2,000 |
| MRR | $200K | $500K | $1M |
| ARR | $2.4M | $6M | $12M |
To convert inbound pipeline into paid seats, hit $1.2M ARR in 12 months, and expand coverage.
First engineering hire. Scale the data moat. Expand AI agent layer.
2 BDMs selling direct to mining companies. Conference presence.
Servers, legal, tools. Geographic expansion into new jurisdictions.
68 million records. 9 product modules. Australia + Canada. Zero competitors.
