Chromium prospectivityacross Australia, the USA, Canada & worldwide.

MineDSS models two deposit systems: stratiform and podiform chromite, both hosted in mafic–ultramafic rocks. Stratiform chromite occurs as laterally persistent seams within large, slowly cooled layered intrusions, which hold most of the world's chromite resource and are commonly associated with platinum-group reefs and nickel–copper sulphides. Podiform chromite occurs as pods and lenses of chromite within the dunite and harzburgite of ophiolites, slices of oceanic mantle obducted onto continents. Both are magmatic accumulations of chromite, the only ore mineral of chromium.

Every MineDSS model is tested before it is served: we withhold whole blocks of ground, rebuild the model without them, and check that it still ranks the anomalous samples there above background, with test ground kept spatially separate. A model that does not pass our release gates is not used, for any mineral, in any country. National models for chromium run in Australia, the United States and Canada, with ranked targets. Anywhere else in the world, the global model returns the prospectivity map, the geology behind it and a confidence read. Skill is model-level, never a specific site's measured accuracy, and never a discovery or JORC / NI 43-101 resource claim.

The classic pathfinders are nickel, cobalt, scandium, vanadium, platinum and iridium, with nickel, cobalt and scandium leading. These elements track the mafic–ultramafic host and the oxide, sulphide and platinum-group chemistry that accompanies chromite in layered intrusions and ophiolite chromitites, rather than chromium itself, which is locked in the ore mineral chromite. These elements are part of the geochemical record our models learn from. In a run on any piece of ground, the map itself is read from geology and rock age, gravity and magnetics, radiometrics, terrain, satellite radar and spectral alteration, so it covers ground that has never been sampled.

No. A high score means its evidence closely matches ground where samples assay anomalously high for the target mineral, and it merits closer exploration attention. It is not a discovery, not a JORC or NI 43-101 resource or reserve estimate, and not drilling or investment advice. MineDSS ranks prospectivity to help prioritise where to look; confirming whether chromite is present, and in what quantity and grade, still requires field programmes, drilling and independent assessment by qualified professionals.