Open Platform
A $55B market with no incumbent. Mine Market combines a global marketplace, AI-powered analysis, and 130+ live government data sources into a single platform for mining transactions.
A junior explorer in Leonora, WA wants to sell their tenement. Here's what happens today:
Pay 5-10% commission. Wait for them to manually compile a PDF data pack from scattered government portals.
The broker blasts a PDF to their contact list. No analytics, no targeting, no idea who's actually interested.
Buyers do their own manual due diligence, pulling the same government data the broker already compiled. Everyone duplicates effort.
Or don't. Most small projects never find a buyer because they're invisible to the global market. The tenement expires.
List for free instead of paying 5-10% broker commission. Your project is instantly visible to buyers in 22+ countries. AI generates professional data packs from live government sources.
Due diligence that took 2 weeks now takes 30 seconds. AI Insight Reports replace $10K consulting engagements. The Opportunity Scanner finds ground that no broker would show you.
"I've lived this. 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 $100B in 2025. Critical mineral demand is projected to 3x 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zillow | Residential RE | $16B | Digitized listings, added data layers (Zestimate) |
| CoStar | Commercial RE | $35B | Aggregated commercial data, analytics platform |
| Ritchie Bros | Equipment | $15B | Online auctions for heavy equipment |
| Airbnb | Short-term Rental | $80B | Marketplace + trust layer for fragmented inventory |
| Mine Market | Mining Assets | Building | Marketplace + AI intelligence for mining projects |
$100B+ in mining M&A activity in 2025. Majors are acquiring juniors at record pace. The transaction volume is there, but the infrastructure to discover and execute deals is not.
PwC Global Mining Deals Report, 2025EV, defence, and energy transition are driving demand for lithium, cobalt, rare earths, and nickel. Governments are funding exploration. The supply gap is accelerating.
IEA Critical Minerals Outlook, 2024Small 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.
TMX Group Junior Mining Market Report, 2024LLMs can synthesize geological data, regulatory context, and market conditions into investor-grade reports in seconds. This was not feasible 24 months ago. No incumbent has adopted AI.
Launched weeks ago with $0 spend. Growth is entirely organic. The market is actively searching for this.
"Using the Scanner, I identified 3 expired tenements near a known gold deposit outside Kalgoorlie. One had 15 historic drillholes with a best intercept of 1.94 g/t Au that the previous holder never followed up on. The AI brief flagged it as high-potential with an estimated exploration budget of $180K. That kind of discovery would have taken a geologist weeks of manual SLIP portal searching. The Scanner found it in 12 seconds."
Mine Market replaces brokers, manual research, and scattered government portals with a single AI-powered platform. 50,000+ lines of code. 293 API files. Built by one person.
The global marketplace for mining projects, tenements, and mineral assets. Free to list, zero broker fees, direct connections between sellers and verified buyers.
List any mining project in 5 minutes. 13 commodities supported. Multi-tenement and multi-claim projects. Admin-verified with badge system.
LiveFilter by commodity, country, price, project type, and more. Save searches with instant/daily/weekly alerts. Watchlists synced across devices.
LiveIn-platform messaging, info pack requests, offer submissions, and NDA signing with digital signatures. Direct buyer-seller connections.
LivePer-listing metrics: views, saves, inquiries, downloads. Vendor dashboard with activity feed and inquiry management.
LiveA dedicated section for buying and selling mining equipment, with integrated PFT (Permission to Transfer) forms for regulated equipment transfers and streamlined compliance workflows.
AI-generated geological intelligence for any tenement, claim, or project. Aggregates live government data into actionable analysis, personalized by user role and perspective.
Every report adapts to the user's role. A buyer gets risk analysis. An explorer gets drill targets. An investor gets financial viability and JORC estimates. Six distinct perspectives from the same data.
Live0-100 confidence score across 11 categories: claims, deposits, drilling, geology, First Nations, protected areas, species, environmental, and infrastructure. Shows exactly where data gaps exist.
LiveExecutive summary, geological context, drillhole analysis, nearby deposits, infrastructure, regulatory/heritage, risk assessment, and JORC resources. PDF export, email sharing, and follow-up AI chat.
LiveScan any area in Western Australia to find expiring and expired tenements worth pegging. AI scores every opportunity across 7 dimensions so the best ground floats to the top.
Every tenement is scored against real geological data. Commodity-specific thresholds for 8 minerals. Scores are transparent and broken down.
Also includes: commodity pre-filter for 10 commodities (including 31 critical minerals), one-click AI opportunity briefs, 3D Cesium terrain with subsurface drillhole rendering, drilling cluster intelligence with phase classification, interactive mapping with full tenement polygons, and the last 6 months of WA-wide drilling activity (20,000+ holes).
Live connections to government geological surveys across Australia, Canada, and federal agencies. Auto-discovered and monitored by the Scout Agent.
An autonomous agent crawls 10+ government data portals across 8 Australian states plus federal agencies. It scores new data sources by mining relevance, ranks every field 0-100 for importance, and auto-installs them into the platform with one click. The data moat grows itself. Currently monitoring WA SLIP, QLD GeoResGlobe, SA SARIG, NSW MinView, VIC GeoVic, NT STRIKE, TAS MRT, Geoscience Australia, BOM, and Ontario MLAS.
Six distinct user personas, each with tailored workflows. PWA installable, dark/light themes, WCAG accessible, Google Translate for global reach.
Find your next tenement with the Scanner. Score ground before spending a dollar on pegging. Generate AI briefs for board reports.
Due diligence in seconds. AI Insight Reports with risk analysis, JORC estimates, and data confidence scores.
Browse, watchlist, and get alerts. Direct messaging with sellers. NDA signing and info pack requests.
3D terrain with subsurface drillholes. Cluster analysis with phase classification. Assay analysis across 8 commodities.
List client projects for free. AI reports for marketing. CRM with LinkedIn import and campaign tracking.
Scan for expiring ground near known deposits. Commodity scoring surfaces the best opportunities. Live prices.
Existing players are either brokers with websites or generic deal platforms. None combine marketplace, AI intelligence, and government data at scale.
| Feature | MinesOnline | Traditional Brokers | DealStream | Mine Market |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Transaction fees | 5% | 5-10% | Subscription | 1-2% |
| AI reports | No | No | No | Yes, 6 perspectives |
| Government data | No | Manual | No | 130+ live APIs |
| Opportunity scanner | No | No | No | 7-dimension scoring |
| 3D terrain viewer | No | No | No | Cesium + subsurface |
| Mining-specific | Yes | Yes | No | Purpose-built |
| Modern UX | Dated | PDF/email | Generic | SPA, dark theme, PWA |
| Critical minerals | No | Limited | No | 31 minerals scored |
Why can't someone just copy this? Three compounding moats that widen over time:
130+ government API integrations took months of reverse-engineering SLIP, ArcGIS, WFS, and CKAN endpoints. Each new API increases the platform's value for every user. The Scout Agent compounds this advantage autonomously.
Listings attract buyers. Buyers attract listings. Once liquidity tips, switching costs become real. The first platform to build a critical mass of mining project listings wins the category.
Generic AI tools can't interpret MDHDB assay data, JORC classifications, or MINEDEX deposit stages. Mine Market's AI layer is trained with domain-specific context that takes years of mining experience to build.
Phase 1 (now): free listings to build liquidity. Phase 2: premium features, scanner subscriptions, and transaction fees.
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 (293 PHP files, clear separation). First hire (with pre-seed funds) is a senior engineer. Architecture documentation exists. No proprietary knowledge that can't be transferred.
Marketplaces need both supply and demand to work. Early traction is small.
Mitigation: Free listings remove supply friction. Scanner and AI reports provide standalone value even without marketplace activity. The 41% intent rate shows demand exists before supply.
130+ APIs from government portals that could change, break, or go offline.
Mitigation: Live-first caching with local DB fallback. Health monitoring with dead-API detection. Scout Agent automatically discovers replacements. 7 local datasets provide baseline data even if all APIs go down.
A larger company with more resources could enter this space.
Mitigation: 12+ months head start on 130+ API integrations. Domain-specific AI that requires mining expertise to build correctly. First-mover in marketplace liquidity. Incumbents (MinesOnline, brokers) have no technical capability or incentive to rebuild.
18 months of runway to reach product-market fit, first transactions, and Phase 2 monetization. This round gets Mine Market to seed-stage metrics.
293 API files. 50,000+ lines of code. 130+ government data sources. Zero competitors. $150K to own the category.