Strontium prospectivityacross Australia, the USA, Canada & worldwide.

MineDSS models two deposit systems: sedimentary-hosted and carbonatite-related strontium. Sedimentary systems host celestine, a strontium sulphate, in carbonate-evaporite sequences, where strontium expelled from limestone and dolomite during burial precipitates in restricted, sabkha-type evaporitic basins alongside gypsum, anhydrite and halite. Carbonatite-related systems concentrate strontium as strontianite and within calcite and apatite in mantle-derived carbonate intrusions and their alkaline aureoles, together with rare earths, niobium and barium. The model does not attempt to represent unrelated deposit styles; it ranks ground by how closely its evidence matches ground where samples assay anomalously high for the target mineral.

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 strontium 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 barium, cerium, lanthanum, niobium, thorium and yttrium, led by barium and the light rare earths cerium and lanthanum. Barium follows strontium through both modelled families: the two form a sulphate solid solution in evaporites and co-enrich in carbonatites. Cerium, lanthanum, niobium, thorium and yttrium trace the rare-earth and high-field-strength chemistry that is diagnostic of carbonatite and alkaline systems. 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 estimate, and not drilling or investment advice. MineDSS ranks prospectivity to help prioritise where to look; confirming whether economic celestine or strontianite is present, and in what quantity and grade, still requires field programmes, drilling and independent assessment by qualified professionals.