AI-POWERED SATELLITE MINERAL EXPLORATION
Find the ground worth drilling, before you drill it.
Farmonaut Mining Pro fuses satellite optical, radar, thermal, and magnetic data into ranked, priced Exploration Targets — then lets you model, plan, and export them like a mining engineer would, from any browser.
Trusted by 100+ mining businesses across 25+ countries — from gold in West Africa to lithium and copper-cobalt. See real success stories below.
Exploration used to mean guessing where to spend first.
Airborne surveys and boots-on-the-ground reconnaissance are still how ground gets confirmed — but they're the wrong first move on a licence you haven't triaged yet. Satellite mineral exploration software exists to make that first move cheap.
Without satellite triage
- Weeks to months before a single hectare is ranked
- Field crews sent on gut feel and old geological maps
- One evidence type at a time, rarely cross-checked
- A portfolio review means re-flying or re-visiting ground
With Farmonaut Mining Pro
- A licence boundary in, ranked targets out, same session
- Five independent evidence families cross-checked automatically
- Every score shows its own reasoning — nothing is a black box
- A monthly re-run is a browser refresh, not a field mobilisation
Five kinds of physical evidence, fused into one score.
No single satellite sensor proves a deposit. Farmonaut Mining Pro fuses 21+ sensor and geophysical layers — grouped below into five physical evidence families — into one Gold Potential Index, and only ranks a target highly when independent physics agree. That's exactly how a geologist builds confidence, just run at licence scale.
Reflected light
Multispectral imagery maps hydrothermal alteration, iron-oxide ratios, and vegetation stress at the surface.
Emitted heat
Thermal anomalies point to shallow intrusive or epithermal systems still warm enough to register from orbit.
Structural fabric
Synthetic aperture radar reads lineament density and fault networks that control where fluids — and ore — travel.
Potential fields
Magnetic field response finds the buried intrusive source driving the whole system, invisible at the surface.
Slope & drainage
Elevation and hydrology screen out ground that's geotechnically unworkable before it ever reaches a target list.
Click any zone on the 2D Map and open its "Why Detected?" panel — it flies to the zone and ranks its top evidence out of 8 real named signal fields (ASTER alteration, SAR radar, PALSAR, thermal, geobotanical, geophysics, bare-ground evidence, and the fused GPI score itself). Nothing about a ranking is a black box.
Nine tools, one continuous chain from evidence to economics.
Every tool reads from the same detection run — click into a zone on the map and it's the same zone in the block model, the same zone in the pit shell.
2D Map
Licence boundary, detected anomaly zones colour-ranked by priority, and live portfolio stats on real satellite imagery — the daily starting point for a licence review.
Raster Inspector
Sample any pixel of the Gold Potential Index, grade, or signal-strength rasters directly, with a histogram view to tell a coherent signal from salt-and-pepper noise.
3D Viewer
Full 3D mining visualization — terrain, depth, grade, drill-target vectors, and an economic heat map, orbitable from four compass directions to avoid a one-viewpoint bias.
Zone Table
Every anomaly audited side by side — grade, contained metal, a raw confidence score against its threshold, false-positive risk, and drill-priority tier.
Block Model
A regularized 3D grid coded EXPL_TARGET_A/B/C by confidence and BSMT/HOST/MINZ/OVB/OXID by rock type — deliberately not a 1/2/3 resource classification.
Drillholes
A full collar/survey/assay/lithology database behind eight visualization modes — 3D, Plan, Section, Bench Map, 2D Section, Isopach, Strip Log, Cross Sections — for planning an azimuth-targeted, fence-grid drill program before a single hole is collared.
Mine Plan
A conceptual floating-cone pit shell, a grade-tonnage curve at any cut-off, bench-by-bench tonnage, and a life-of-mine schedule.
Economics
Per-zone recoverable value, a break-even price, and a sensitivity tornado chart across price and recovery.
Export & Reports
DXF, Surpac STR/DTM, and OMF exports for Leapfrog, Vulcan, Surpac, and Datamine, in real-world UTM coordinates — plus a full investor-ready PDF report.
One licence, start to finish, in real numbers.
Every figure below comes from an actual Farmonaut Mining Pro session on a real demonstration licence — coordinates and place names deliberately obfuscated for confidentiality, the grades, tonnages, and dollar figures left exactly as the platform produced them.
What's actually on screen.
Real captures from a live session — a de-identified demonstration licence, exactly as the platform renders it.
Real licences, real targets, real results.
Farmonaut's satellite mineral exploration work spans dozens of real licences across five continents. A sample of the published, publicly-viewable case studies below.
From satellite target to a drill hit
Ranked targets on a compact licence went straight to the drill. The client confirmed mineralisation was encountered exactly where the analysis pointed.
7 ranked targets in 366 acres
A greenstone-belt licence was screened end to end, ruling out 83.7% of the ground before any fieldwork and narrowing the rest to seven ranked zones.
300 hectares, 6+ months saved
A dual-commodity licence screening let the client walk into fundraising and partner conversations with ranked, evidence-backed targets in hand.
A 9-project portfolio, triaged at once
533.65 km² across nine separate licences screened in a single engagement — a full national portfolio review instead of nine separate mobilisations.
Four roles, one shared source of truth.
Four workflows, each a fast tour through the same nine tools above — this is exactly how the course's closing chapter ties the platform together.
Triage an entire portfolio and rank where the next exploration dollar actually goes, before committing a field crew.
Turn a satellite run into a first-pass drill program and defensible trench azimuths — trenching across strike, not a single point drill — ready to hand to the field team.
Get an independent second read on an exploration claim, with the reasoning behind every score fully visible via "Why Detected?" and the confidence-class breakdown.
Run the same review monthly, and see exactly what changed on a licence — new zones, shifted confidence classes — since the last look.
Watch the full course before you touch a single tool.
Every tab and every formula, taught live inside the real platform, from "how do satellites find gold" to a full conceptual mine plan, using the exact demo licence in the worked example above.
All 16 chapters.
Foundations first, then all nine tools in the order they actually connect, then applied workflows — every chapter cut from the same real, de-identified session.
Plus 17 standalone 3–6 minute clips cut from the chapters above, one per search query — from "what is a Gold Potential Index" to "what is an Exploration Target."
Frequently asked questions
What is Farmonaut Mining Pro?
AI-powered satellite mineral exploration software. It fuses 21+ multispectral, radar, thermal, and magnetic satellite and geophysical layers into a Gold Potential Index, turns a licence boundary into ranked, priced targets, and models them across nine connected tools — 2D mapping through conceptual mine economics — without a drill rig.
Has Farmonaut Mining Pro been validated in the field?
Yes. In a recent copper-cobalt licence, ranked targets from Farmonaut Mining Pro were taken straight to the drill, and the client confirmed mineralisation was encountered exactly where the analysis pointed. See more real, published results in Success Stories above.
What satellite data does it use?
Five independent physical evidence families — reflected-light multispectral imagery, thermal imagery, radar, magnetic field data, and terrain data — built from 21+ underlying sensor layers and fused into one Gold Potential Index rather than trusted individually. Click any detected zone's "Why Detected?" panel to see the real per-signal scores behind its ranking.
Is Farmonaut Mining Pro a satellite gold detector or scanner?
Not a handheld device — Farmonaut Mining Pro is the software version of that idea. Instead of sweeping ground by hand, it fuses satellite optical, radar, thermal, and magnetic data into a Gold Potential Index and scans an entire licence — hundreds of hectares at once — from a browser.
Does Farmonaut Mining Pro offer 3D mining visualization?
Yes. The 3D Viewer renders terrain, depth, grade, drill-target vectors, and an economic heat map as one explorable scene, orbitable from four compass directions — alongside a separate 3D mode inside the Drillholes tool for collars, surveys, and assays.
Which countries and commodities has it been used in?
Farmonaut's satellite mineral exploration work spans 25+ countries and 25+ minerals — gold, lithium, copper, cobalt, diamond, bentonite, and more — across more than 500,000 acres analyzed for over 100 mining businesses.
Can I export to Leapfrog, Vulcan, Surpac, or Datamine?
Yes. DXF and OMF cover Leapfrog and Vulcan, and Surpac STR/DTM is native to GEOVIA Surpac — all exported in real-world UTM coordinates so nothing needs manual re-positioning on import.
Who is this built for?
Mining licence owners, exploration consultants, investors doing independent diligence, and mining company staff who need a repeatable monthly review — anyone who needs to know where to look before committing a field budget.
Is there a way to learn the platform before using it?
Yes — a free 16-chapter, 4-hour course walks through every tool using a real demo licence, from the physics of satellite detection to a full conceptual mine plan. See the full curriculum above.
