XploraHub is an online community for mineral exploration and mining technology. Members show the tools they build and the field tests they run, and geologists, geophysicists, engineers and data scientists question them in the open.
| Show it | Question it | Improve it |
|---|---|---|
| Post a tool, model, dataset or field test, and say what it was tested on. | People who know the ground ask how it was tested and where it fails. | The author marks the comments that helped. Those hits build each member's expert profile. |
| The feed | New tools, field tests and questions, ranked by members' votes |
| Experts | Members' expert profiles, built from hits and endorsements |
| Technology companies | The companies building exploration and mining technology |
| Exploration methods | Practical guides to geophysics, drilling, geostatistics and other methods |
| Guides | Deposit types and how each is explored, assay QA/QC, reporting and careers |
| Watch | Talks, case studies, tutorials and field films chosen for substance, with no investor promos |
| Field Notes | Our own articles and interviews |
| News | Exploration and mining technology news |
| Jobs and events | In exploration and mining technology |
- Votes rank posts. They only go up; there are no downvotes.
- Hits are comments the author marks because they improved the post or taught them something. Hits are earned, not given to yourself.
- Endorsements are members vouching for each other's expertise.
- Verified companies have been checked by a person: the company exists and builds or uses technology for exploration or mining. It is not a test of their products.
- Official marks a video from a listed company's own channel.
| Repository | What it is |
|---|---|
| Awesome mineral exploration | Open-source software for exploration, sorted by method, from geophysical inversion to prospectivity mapping |
| Geoscience data portals | Government geoscience data portals: what each holds, how to get the data, what licence applies and what to watch out for |
Built an open-source tool for exploration? Add it to the list with a pull request, or show it on XploraHub. Spotted a portal we've missed? Open an issue.