Gold prospectivity
across Australia, the USA, Canada & worldwide.
Orogenic and intrusion-related gold, ranked and explained — validated across Australia, the United States and Canada.
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Where you can run gold.
A certified national model in the countries ticked below — and anywhere else in the world through our global model.
Outside the certified countries, a run returns the prospectivity map, the geology behind it and a per-cell confidence read — how the global model works →
What the model reads for gold.
Every gold target is scored against the full national evidence stack — mapped geology and rock age, gravity and magnetics, radiometrics, terrain, satellite radar and alteration — the way a geologist reads a map sheet, with a pathfinder-geochemistry signature tuned to this system.
Pathfinder geochemistry the model weighs
Lead signal: Arsenic, antimony and bismuth. These are the elements this national model actually reads to rank gold ground.
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What is gold?
Gold is the archetypal exploration target — high value, globally liquid, and hosted across a wide range of geological settings. MineDSS focuses on the two systems that hold most of the world's hard-rock gold: orogenic (mesothermal) lode gold, deposited where mineralising fluids move along major crustal faults during mountain-building, and intrusion-related gold, sourced from cooling granitic bodies at depth. Both leave a chemical and geophysical footprint far larger than the ore itself — and that footprint is what a prospectivity model learns to read.
The deposit model
Orogenic gold clusters along deep, long-lived fault systems and their splays, typically in deformed greenstone belts and metasedimentary terranes. It is strongly structurally controlled, commonly accompanied by quartz-carbonate veining and sericite-carbonate alteration, with the gold associated with sulphides such as arsenopyrite and pyrite. Intrusion-related systems sit in and around felsic intrusions as sheeted vein arrays with a characteristic metal association. MineDSS reads these settings through mapped geology and rock age, gravity and magnetic structure, radiometrics, terrain, satellite alteration and the pathfinder geochemistry below.
Why it matters
Gold underpins a large share of global exploration spend and the majority of listed explorers on the ASX and TSX. As a monetary metal held by central banks and investors as a store of value, its demand stays structurally resilient through commodity cycles — which keeps the search for new ounces continuous.
Where it's used
Beyond investment and jewellery, gold's resistance to corrosion and excellent conductivity make it essential in high-reliability electronics — connectors, bonding wire and circuitry — as well as dentistry, medical devices and aerospace components.
How MineDSS reads it
In MineDSS national validation, the single strongest signal for gold is arsenic — the classic gold pathfinder — followed by silver and the host-rock setting, then gravity and magnetic structure. The model weighs a full pathfinder suite alongside geophysics and satellite alteration, so a target reflects the whole mineralising system, not a single anomalous sample.
Gold prospectivity — common questions
What gold deposit types does MineDSS model?
Orogenic (mesothermal) lode gold and intrusion-related gold systems — the settings that host most of the world's hard-rock gold. The same engine has strong analogue support in classic gold districts, including the Carlin Trend in Nevada and Val-d'Or in Quebec.
How is the model validated, and where is gold available?
Every MineDSS model is tested the hard way before it is served: we hide known deposits, rebuild the model without them, then test whether it still finds them, with test ground kept spatially separated so the model cannot memorise nearby points. A model that does not pass our release gates is not offered — for any mineral, in any country. Coverage today for gold spans Australia, the United States and Canada. Skill is model-level, never a specific site's measured accuracy, and never a discovery or JORC / NI 43-101 resource claim.
What data drives a gold target?
Pathfinder geochemistry (arsenic, antimony, bismuth, silver and associated metals), mapped geology and rock age, gravity and magnetics, radiometrics, terrain, and satellite-derived alteration — combined into a single ranked, explainable score.
Can I tune the model to my ground?
Yes. Upload your own assays or drillholes and a custom model sharpens to your project — used only for your job, never added to anyone else's model.
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