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  • Three men at a table signing documents, with a flag and seal in background.

    KoBold signs DRC lithium deal for Manono

    A.J. Roan, Metal Tech News|Updated Jul 24, 2025

    Company to begin AI-driven mineral exploration across Congo. Backed by some of the most influential investors in American technology, KoBold Metals Company has entered a formal agreement with the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to launch a multi-billion-dollar AI-powered mineral exploration initiative, beginning with the Manono lithium deposit and extending across the nation's critical mineral landscape. Positioned at the center of global efforts to secure energy transition...

  • Mineral drilling and tech executives standing in front of Major building.

    Major drill site core imaging tech debuts

    Shane Lasley, Metal Tech News|Updated Jul 22, 2025

    Major Drilling, DGI & KORE launch real-time core logging solution. One year after forming a strategic alliance, Major Drilling, KORE GeoSystems, and DGI Geoscience have launched a real-time drill core imaging and logging solution that integrates advanced AI and Starlink-enabled connectivity to streamline geological decision-making at the drill site. "High-resolution core images are remotely accessible from anywhere in the world within seconds of being captured at the drill...

  • A mineral exploration camp in a vast desert in the Middle East.

    Barrick takes a deeper look into Reko Diq

    Shane Lasley, Metal Tech News|Updated Jul 18, 2025

    Fleet Space's ExoSphere mineral exploration tech provides a greater understanding of the world-class copper-gold mine project. Fleet Space Technologies' satellite-enabled and AI-powered ExoSphere mineral exploration platform is playing a crucial role in the development of Reko Diq – a world-class mine project poised to be transformational for Barrick Mining and the Pakistani economy. Being developed by Reko Diq Mining Company (RDMC) – a joint venture owned and operated by Bar...

  • A hexagon-shaped silver sensor on a pedestal in front of a countdown clock.

    Fleet Space launches MT exploration tech

    Shane Lasley, Metal Tech News|Updated Jul 16, 2025

    Adds magnetotellurics to its AI-powered ExoSphere mineral exploration platform. Global mining companies that are already impressed with the avant-garde subsurface imaging technologies offered by Fleet Space Technologies can now gain a clearer picture of buried rock formations as they explore for orebodies enriched with the highly demanded but harder-to-find minerals and metals critical to high-tech, clean energy, and everyday living. "At Fleet Space, we're building the next...

  • Close-up of a sensor designed for mineral exploration geophysical surveys.

    Quantum leap in mineral exploration tech

    Shane Lasley, Mining News|Updated Jul 2, 2025

    Fleet Space teams up with quantum, muon tech innovators to enhance AI-powered discovery platform. In its continued push to revolutionize mineral exploration on Earth – and eventually beyond – Fleet Space Technologies has formed alliances with three Australian innovators harnessing the power of quantum mechanics and cosmic-ray muons to sharpen the precision, speed, and efficiency of its satellite-enabled and AI-driven exploration platform. Fleet Space's ExoSphere platform app...

  • A satellite image of Saudi Arabia at night.

    Data-driven exploration reshaping Saudi mining

    Shane Lasley, Metal Tech News|Updated Jun 24, 2025

    Ma'aden taps Fleet Space, Tahreez to deploy AI and space-tech in search of Digital Age minerals. As many of its global mining peers are trimming mineral exploration budgets, Ma'aden is ramping up with AI and satellite-enabled tech to unlock an estimated $2.5 trillion in untapped Saudi Arabian mineral wealth. With its sights set on elevating mining as a third pillar of the Saudi Arabian economy and establishing the Middle Eastern kingdom as a cornerstone of global mineral...

  • Tech entrepreneur-executives in black “Fleet” t-shirts and vest.

    Fleet Space makes a seismic shift

    Shane Lasley, Metal Tech News|Updated Mar 20, 2025

    Celebrates decade of innovation with a bold leap into the future of mineral exploration. A decade ago, Fleet Space Technologies was founded with a vision to revolutionize mineral exploration. Now, as it celebrates its 10th anniversary, the Australian tech company is cementing its position as a global leader in satellite-enabled and AI-driven exploration with three transformative milestones – the acquisition of seismic imaging leader HiSeis, an ambitious global expansion, a...

  • Earth from space, showing AU, encircled in grid lines and satellites.

    Hyperspectral satellite startup raises $5M

    K. Warner, Metal Tech News|Updated Mar 20, 2025

    From critical minerals and climate change to defense, Esper is racking up support and partnerships. Melbourne-based space startup Esper Satellites has secured $5 million in seed funding to expand its fleet of hyperspectral satellites, which scan Earth for critical minerals such as lithium and rare earths. Following the ongoing success of Adelaide-based pioneer in satellite-driven mineral discovery Fleet Space Technologies, Esper aims to revolutionize mineral exploration by...

  • AI image of volcanic landscape with lush green slopes, steaming crater.

    Scientists discover Earth's metal highways

    K. Warner, Metal Tech News|Updated Mar 14, 2025

    New study pinpoints critical metal accumulation around edges of ancient continental cores. In a groundbreaking study, researchers from Macquarie University have uncovered an ancient, hidden network of geological formations like "metal highways" beneath the Earth's ancient continental cores. Shaped over millions of years, these geological formations serve as corridors for deposits of critical metals such as cobalt, copper, and rare earth elements. The discovery provides a new...

  • Closeup of a flat oval-shaped rock with a Roman-style H stamped into it.

    Satellites, AI, and the search for hydrogen

    Shane Lasley, Metal Tech News|Updated Mar 14, 2025

    Powerful startups combined forces to explore for geological hydrogen to fuel clean energy future. As an energy-rich fuel that only emits water vapor as a byproduct when it is burned, hydrogen promises to be a clean energy source for our industries, businesses, homes, and vehicles. Now, Koloma Inc., a hydrogen exploration company backed by Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos, has teamed up with the high-powered Australian mineral exploration tech firm Fleet Space Technologies Inc. to...

  • A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches from Vanderberg Space Force Base.

    Saudi Arabian Mining to deploy ExoSphere

    Shane Lasley, Metal Tech News|Updated Jan 29, 2025

    Ma'aden to leverage the Fleet Space's satellite-enabled tech to accelerate mineral exploration across the Saudi Shield. Continuing its rocketing growth and the adoption of its cutting-edge mineral exploration technology by some of the world's largest mining companies, Australia-based Fleet Space Technologies has entered into an agreement with the Saudi Arabian Mining Company, or Ma'aden, to deploy its satellite-enabled and AI-enhanced ExoSphere platform to accelerate the...

  • A metallic high-tech sensor on a pedestal in front of a countdown clock.

    Fleet Space closes $100M Series D funding

    Shane Lasley, Metal Tech News|Updated Jan 3, 2025

    Global investors and mining companies alike are excited about company's tech for mineral exploration on Earth and in space. There are certain moments when a step-change technology is perfectly timed to fill a need that is urgent and growing. Australia-based Fleet Space Technologies' satellite-enabled and AI-enhanced ExoSphere platform for discovering minerals critical to the energy transition is one of those technologies. "As we continue to strive for a net-zero future, the...

  • Graphic of satellite collecting and transmitting mineral exploration data.

    Gravity of space-based mineral exploration

    Shane Lasley, Metal Tech News|Updated Dec 6, 2024

    Fleet Space adds gravity surveys to ExoSphere, providing mining clients with an even more powerful mineral exploration solution. The satellite-enabled and AI-enhanced ExoSphere mineral exploration solution has already attracted the attention of Rio Tinto, Barrick Gold, and other global mining companies that are using this subsurface imaging technology to discover buried deposits of cobalt, copper, lithium, nickel, and other critical metals. Fleet Space Technologies, the...

  • Helicopter flying an aeromagnetic survey, dangling sensors.

    Scanning Wyoming for mineral treasures

    K. Warner, Metal Tech News|Updated Dec 5, 2024

    Aerial scans of the Earth's crust 3,300 feet below ground are being used to seek out potential critical mineral deposits in Cowboy State. Using an array of sensors attached to aircraft flying overhead, geologists are scanning thousands of feet below Wyoming's surface with electromagnetic surveys – a prospecting method that reads the strength of the earth's subsurface magnetic field to identify likely locations of valuable metals and minerals like vanadium, niobium and t...

  • A trail exposes white salts under red rocks at a South American lithium project.

    Rio Tinto explores for lithium from space

    Shane Lasley, Metal Tech News|Updated Nov 1, 2024

    Joins a growing number of mining companies leveraging Fleet Space's satellite-enabled and AI-powered mineral exploration technology. Toward its longstanding commitment to finding a better way to provide the minerals and metals the world needs, Rio Tinto is leveraging Fleet Space Technologies' satellite-enabled ExoSphere mineral exploration solution to gain greater insights into what lies below the surface at its Rincon lithium mine project in Argentina. "Rio Tinto and Fleet...

  • A white electronic device on a rocky and treeless high desert landscape.

    Gold Fields deploys ExoSphere in Chile

    Shane Lasley, Metal Tech News|Updated Oct 11, 2024

    Sees satellite-enabled mineral exploration tech as an ideal solution for its gold-silver-silver copper mine in the Andes Mountains of Northern Chile. As part of its ongoing commitment to leveraging new technologies that maximize productivity and minimize its environmental footprint in some of the harshest conditions on Earth, Gold Fields has deployed Fleet Space Technologies' ExoSphere mineral exploration solution to expand upon its reserves of gold, silver, and copper at the...

  • Graphic of a satellite scanning Geodes with 3D geological model inset.

    A deeper understanding of Chilean copper

    Shane Lasley, Metal Tech News|Updated Sep 6, 2024

    Power Nickel leverages Fleet Space's AI-powered ExoSphere mineral exploration tech to scan projects along Chile's Atacama Fault System. From Barrick Gold's Reko Diq mine project in Pakistan to Inflection Resources' Macquarie Arc land package in Australia and Eagle Mountain Mining's Silver Mountain property in Arizona, Fleet Space Technologies' ExoSphere mineral exploration technology has emerged as an increasingly important tool to efficiently and sustainably discover new...

  • Close-up of a Fleet Space Geode planted in red-colored soil.

    ExoSphere scans for more Arizona copper

    Shane Lasley, Metal Tech News|Updated Aug 26, 2024

    Eagle Mountain leverages Fleet Space's AI-enhanced and satellite-enabled ExoSphere technology to discover copper deposits below Silver Mountain. In the two years since Fleet Space Technologies launched ExoSphere, this satellite-enabled mineral exploration technology has rocketed up the list of solutions for discovering the minerals critical to the energy transition – especially copper. The list of companies deploying ExoSphere ranges from junior mineral exploration companies l...

  • A pickup offers scale for a vast expanse of desert and mountains in Pakistan.

    Exploring Reko Diq with Fleet Space tech

    Shane Lasley, Metal Tech News|Updated Aug 26, 2024

    Barrick Gold leverages satellite-enabled AI mineral exploration technology to explore the larger copper potential at Pakistani project. Barrick Gold Corp. is the latest in a growing number of mining companies to use space tech and AI mineral exploration solutions developed by Australia-based Fleet Space Technologies to discover hidden deposits of minerals needed for the clean energy transition. While Barrick is best known for being one of the world's largest producers of...

  • An enclosed trailer with open doors revealing TruScan controls and feed area.

    TruScan affirms CuMo ore sorting promise

    Shane Lasley, Mining News|Updated Jul 11, 2024

    Nearly all metals are found within 10% of rocks in Idaho copper deposit; XRF core scans proving to be ideal match for ore sorting analysis. Preliminary results from Idaho Copper Corp.'s use of Veracio's TruScan are beginning to reveal how the use of this automated drill core analysis technology during exploration can maximize the effectiveness of ore sorting technology during operations. By using specialized sensors to identify and reject unmineralized rocks prior to feeding...

  • A worker walks through tall, dry grass carrying an electronic device.

    Spacetech & AI aid Aussie copper search

    Shane Lasley, Metal Tech News|Updated Jul 6, 2024

    Inflection Resources leverages Fleet Space's ExoSphere to survey enormous land package. To help discover large deposits of copper that will help meet growing demands of the global energy transition, Inflection Resources Ltd. is leveraging the space tech and AI mineral exploration solutions provided by Fleet Space Technologies to scan for potential targets hidden undercover across an enormous copper-prospective land package in New South Wales, Australia. Under an up to $96...

  • A TruScan mobile unit parked and set up to receive drill core for scanning.

    A TruScan of CuMo ore sorting potential

    Shane Lasley, Metal Tech News|Updated May 15, 2024

    Idaho Copper is utilizing Veracio's digital ore scanning tech to accurately relog drill core in preparation for updated mine study. As the next step in its goal of providing a domestic source of copper to meet the United States' growing demand for this energy transition metal, Idaho Copper Corp. is leveraging Veracio's TruScan technology to digitally analyze more than 60,000 feet (18,290 meters) of core in preparation for ore sorting studies at its CuMo cop...

  • Image of a Fleet Space nanosatellite over Earth.

    Space-based mineral exploration upgrade

    Shane Lasley, Metal Tech News|Updated Mar 13, 2024

    New machine learning enhancements make ExoSphere faster and more powerful than ever; Fleet Space joins Stanford's Mineral-X program Already a powerful tool that is being leveraged by global mining companies such as Rio Tinto and Barrick Gold Corp. to discover mineral deposits hidden below the earth's surface, Fleet Space Technologies' satellite-enabled ExoSphere is now more powerful and faster than ever thanks to the introduction of machine learning. First introduced in 2022,...

  • A drone flies by a mountain shrouded in clouds.

    Quantum leap for mineral exploration

    Shane Lasley, Metal Tech News|Updated Mar 12, 2024

    SBQuantum and Silicon Microgravity merge cutting-edge geophysics tech into a single drone-mounted platform. The world's first diamond quantum magnetometers, a disruptive gravity sensor technology, are being combined with drones into a platform aimed at accelerating the discovery of minerals and metals critical to the high-tech and green energy future. "We'll be combining two key geophysical surveying methods, gravimetry and magnetics, to quickly identify promising mineral...

  • A lone geologist explores rock outcrops in an arid environment.

    BHP selects 2024 Xplor accelerator cohort

    Shane Lasley, Metal Tech News|Updated Feb 6, 2024

    Six early-staged explorers selected for the innovative mineral discovery accelerator enjoy $500,000 grant, technical experts, BHP's network. As part of its innovative approach to accelerating the discovery of minerals critical to the energy transition, BHP has selected six companies to join the second cohort of its Xplor program. Launched by the mining giant in the fall of 2022, BHP Xplor is a unique program that offers funding and technical support to early-stage mineral...

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