Announcing the Mineral-X Data Science and AI Incubator for Junior Mining Companies

Objective: Stanford Mineral-X is interested to learn more about Junior Mining Companies exploration activities, more specifically in the use of data science, decision science and AI.

What are we offering? One (possibly more) junior mining company is invited to interact for 6 months with researchers at Stanford Mineral-X to collaborate on the application of Mineral-X data science, decision science and AI applied to a junior mining company's ongoing exploration asset. We offer our time, we do not offer any $ support for this activity. We are offering our collaboration, not consulting.

 Closed for 2025

What are requirements for applicants?

• A junior mining company with a market cap less than $50 million.
• Your company should have one ongoing exploration project (greenfield or brownfield) where you see a need for more advanced approaches to data analysis and/or decision making.
• The exploration project should be on energy transition minerals, such as Cu, Ni, Li, Co, REE,...
• Your company should have in-house expertise on data science, machine learning, and/or programming (e.g. python).
• Your company is willing to put time aside, and have a team interact with Stanford Mineral-X. Traveling to visit Stanford is highly encouraged.
• Company data should be made available to Stanford researchers and can be made subject to a non-disclosure agreement.
• You should be open to publishing the methodologies of the outcome of this work in academic and/or industrial venues.