OpenOre

Critical minerals intelligence: 14,900+ deposits · 6,700+ mines · 1.18M licences · 230 jurisdictions. Every claim labeled by its evidence. Free Explorer tier.

[OpenOre @OpenOre_]

OpenOre is open.

14,900+ deposits · 6,700+ mines · 1.18M licences · 230 jurisdictions — mapped, linked, and sourced, with every claim labeled by its evidence.

Free tier: full Atlas, watchlists with alerts, AI Analyst. No card.

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[OpenOre @OpenOre_]

Five operations changed state this week. None because of geology.

Escondida: mediation requested
Centinela: strike begins
Sibanye-Stillwater: strike ends
Raspadskaya: fire halts output
Grota: court clears restart

Labour x3, fire x1, court x1.

https://t.co/T0aoSpxDTL

[OpenOre @OpenOre_]

Four commitments, one jurisdiction, four days.

30 Sep: Kachi approved, 25,000 t/yr lithium
30 Sep: POSCO plant to open
2 Oct: $1B to expand Cauchari-Olaroz
3 Oct: Glencore's $4B copper project cleared

Argentina had the week.
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[OpenOre @OpenOre_]

38 signals needed a location last week. We placed 15 and left 23 unplaced.

A place-name match put Sibanye-Stillwater's Stillwater mine in Oklahoma. It is in Montana, 1,490 km away.

An alert on the wrong continent isn't a smaller problem than no alert.
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[OpenOre @OpenOre_]

Seven permissions granted last week. One allowed to expire.

Kachi approved. Hunter Valley cleared to 2045. Skouries energised. Glencore's $4B copper project cleared.

And Gold Fields halted Windfall because a permit lapsed.

Permission, not geology.
https://t.co/T0aoSpxDTL

[OpenOre @OpenOre_]

We reviewed 303 stories last week and published 64. We also removed 27 duplicates.

"Texas startup raises $133M" and "Hertha Metals raises $133m" are the same raise. They share no distinctive word.

Counting headlines is not counting events.
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[OpenOre @OpenOre_]

The biggest offtake we published last week was tungsten from a mine in Devon — $1.8B, Tungsten West and Elmet.

Same week: $1B US battery metals, $7B US–Argentina corridor, 1,035 g/t gold in Ecuador.

The map is wider than the narrative.
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[OpenOre @OpenOre_]

The world's largest copper mine stopped, was investigated and restarted in 48 hours.

Thu: BHP halts Escondida, a worker dead
Thu: 3-yr contract tabled to the union
Fri: regulator opens an inquiry
Fri: restart, tightness eases

Four records, one chain.
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[OpenOre @OpenOre_]

Correction: the bid is A$38.7bn — about US$27bn, not US$38bn.

Our source reported "$38 billion" without a currency marker, and we carried it through unqualified. Two later sources settled it.

Our record has been corrected. Posting this rather than quietly fixing it.

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Northern Star turned down a $38B takeover from Gold Fields.

The signal is the refusal, not the offer.

Same week: $1B Glencore–Nth Cycle offtake, $1.8B UK tungsten, $500M EXIM for a US stockpile.

Consolidation and reshoring, five days apart.
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[OpenOre @OpenOre_]

The only Ontario in our 32,686-place gazetteer is in California.

Manage is in Belgium. Marks is in Russia. Santa Cruz names places in four countries.

Locating a mining story from its headline is harder than it looks. So we read the source.
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[OpenOre @OpenOre_]

Northern Star turned down a $38B takeover from Gold Fields.

The signal is the refusal, not the offer.

Same week: $1B Glencore–Nth Cycle offtake, $1.8B UK tungsten, $500M EXIM for a US stockpile.

Consolidation and reshoring, five days apart.
https://t.co/T0aoSpybJj

[OpenOre @OpenOre_]

We hold 621,715 recorded security events.
We won't alert you on most of them.
Machine-coded news read a Poland airport story as an armed conflict in Bristol — that's the town that republished it. We measured it.
An alert has to say who stands behind it.

[OpenOre @OpenOre_]

Last week: 322 candidates reviewed, 82 published, 240 rejected.
Not because they were false. Because they were thin — no named asset, no concrete commitment.
A feed you can trust is built by what you refuse to publish.

[OpenOre @OpenOre_]

Four of last week's six biggest mining signals had the same author: a government.
- $450M DoW, tungsten
- $414M US loan, Niger uranium
- $100M DoE, Utah lithium
- C$1.3bn, Marathon Cu-Pd
When the state is your lender, policy risk and credit risk stop being separate columns.

[OpenOre @OpenOre_]

The Week in Signals:
- DoW: $450M for tungsten
- $1.5B Komatsu fleet at Crawford, Canada
- US takes 10% stake in Trilogy Metals
- Sudan gold mine collapse kills 60+
- $2.2B/yr REE refinery planned, Romania
Named assets. Concrete commitments. https://t.co/T0aoSpybJj

[OpenOre @OpenOre_]

One week, three signals:
→ REE recycling at commercial scale in Arizona
→ $73M DoE bet on domestic mining tech
→ EU scrutiny of the Anglo–MMG nickel deal

The critical minerals map is being redrawn by policy as much as geology. We keep the whole board visible.

[OpenOre @OpenOre_]

Last week: our Lobito Corridor record.
This week: the system behind it.

36 corridors monitored daily, worldwide. And a hard rule — no data, no claim.

A licence is worth what the route to market is worth. https://t.co/6NcE0HCGsp

[OpenOre @OpenOre_]

Codelco + Escondida copper output: down ~10% in July (COCHILCO).

Two operations moved the global supply picture in one month.

Concentration is fragility. We track it daily → https://t.co/T0aoSpybJj

[OpenOre @OpenOre_]

1,181,233 licence records. 17 national cadastres.

And where a cadastre is closed or paper-only, we publish that too.

Knowing where the data ends is the product. https://t.co/6NcE0HC8CR

[OpenOre @OpenOre_]

Yesterday: the Lobito Corridor's full security record.

Is it unusual? Same test, all 36 corridors we track:

28 — no verified event in 90 days
20 — none in 5 years
14 — never observed

Risk ratings often describe missing data, not safety.

[OpenOre @OpenOre_]

Mining diligence starts with a question nobody answers in writing: can this country's register actually be consulted?

346 portals mapped across 203 countries. 52 countries formally assessed, each written to.

We'd rather publish the gap than paper over it.