Metals Economics Group’s MineSearch database is the most comprehensive source of project information for the global mining industry, with information on more than 11,000 precious and base metals, diamond, uranium, and iron ore developing projects and mines.

The primary source of information. Most major and intermediate mining companies, investment banks, and service providers use MineSearch for

  • Benchmarking
  • Generating acquisition targets
  • Identifying potential buyers
  • Generating client lists
  • Maintaining watching briefs
  • Competitor intelligence
  • Quick “what if” scenarios
  • In-depth, detailed analysis

Rich with project history. More than 300,000 pages of work history, annual production, historical transactions, capital costs, operating costs, reserves and resources, geology, and more.

Big, and getting bigger and richer. Our team of research analysts has been updating, editing, and grooming the information since 1981.

Powerful, intuitive, and always available. MineSearch is easy to use. Just open MineSearch in the Internet Explorer web browser; no special software or complicated installation process is required. MineSearch is available anywhere you can access the Internet.

      

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Search. Want to find all the feasibility-stage gold projects on hold worldwide with more than one million oz in resources, annual production potential of 100,000 oz, and cash costs of less than $300/oz? It takes just a few seconds in MineSearch to find all the relevant projects.

Comprehensive coverage. Global, complete, and authoritative.

Concise, updated daily. MineSearch is updated daily by our research analysts, from both public information and ongoing direct contact with the industry. We analyze and consolidate the essential facts into concise, easy-to-read, and referenced project profiles.

Confidence. By using our services, you can be confident that you have information on all the projects that meet your criteria. MineSearch provides quick, complete, and reliable answers.

 

MINESEARCH PROJECT PROFILES

MineSearch contains more than 11,000 project profiles. Each profile contains a concise but thorough compilation of all available information.

Project profiles contain the following information, as available

  • Project name
  • Ownership
  • Indirect ownership
  • Location
  • Description of claims
  • Project and activity status
  • General comments
  • Subcontractors
  • Environmental comments
  • Work history
  • General production
  • Yearly production
  • Reserves/resources
  • Geology
  • Operating costs
  • Capital costs
  • Transactions
  • Company information
  • Bibliography
  • Links to the owner’s web site
    		•  MineSearch Profile

    CUSTOM REPORT OPTIONS
    MineSearch can generate reports on a single project or on a group of projects in a variety of report formats. For example, a report can include reserves, operating costs, and capital costs for all the projects that match your search criteria.

    CUSTOM DOWNLOADS
    With MineSearch, key information from 87 downloadable fields—from any list of projects—can be downloaded and used in any spreadsheet or database application. This gives you the ability to analyze the data, calculate aggregate numbers, customize reports, and augment your in-house databases.


    PROJECT SEARCH
    MineSearch will quickly find the project or group of projects that meet your criteria. MineSearch’s iterative searching method makes it easy to narrow or broaden search criteria. Projects that meet the search criteria can be viewed at any time.

    		 MineSearch Project Search

    MAPPING
    The result of any MineSearch query can be displayed as a map, where projects are represented by symbols that show status, level of activity, primary commodity, and in-situ value.

    Maps can be saved and used in presentations and reports. Maps can display brief project descriptions or link to the full project report. Maps include political boundaries, rivers, lakes, roads, airports, cities, and towns.

    		MineSearch Map

    NEWS
    The News List button allows you to generate a list of news items that are linked to the projects that match your search criteria. This means that you can search for news on specific types of projects.

    For example, to see news on African platinum projects, select “Africa” from the region list and “platinum” from the primary metals list. To narrow the list to just news on producing platinum projects in Africa, select “production” from the project status list.

    For a specific project, the News button shows all news linked to that project. Selecting the headline displays the full text of the news article.

    All relevant press releases are linked to each project within 24 hours.

    MINESEARCH UPDATE LIST
    Since new information is continually being entered, an update page displays what’s new. The page provides a list of updated projects (with information on primary owner, location, metal), along with a brief synopsis or headline.

    SAVED SEARCHES/ALERTS AND EMAIL NOTIFICATION
    The Saved Searches/Alerts feature saves specific sets of search criteria, which can be executed during a future MineSearch session. For example, if you would like to view the news on all worldwide gold mines and projects on a daily basis, simply save a search for gold and execute it when you log on to MineSearch.

    This feature monitors the results of your saved searches on a daily basis and sends an email when

    • News has been linked to the projects in the results list,
    • Projects in the results list have been updated,
    • Projects have been added to the results list, or
    • Projects are no longer included in the results list.

    Saved Searches/Alerts and Email Notification are specific to individual MineSearch accounts (your ID and Password).

    SAVED LIST
    The Saved List feature maintains and tracks a list of specific projects. The list can be built by adding one project at a time or from the results of a search and then adding or deleting projects. The list can be used to

    • View the current news and data on each project in the list,
    • Generate reports on all the projects in the list, or
    • Download up-to-date information on these projects into a spreadsheet or database for further analysis.

    By accessing a list of projects set up through the Saved List feature, the news can be reviewed quickly for a specific category of projects.

    COMPANYSEARCH-PLUS

    An extensive, searchable database of mining company and project information.

    CompanySearch includes details on 5,000 worldwide mining companies and their projects.

    Whether you are looking for marketing opportunities, evaluating companies or searching for prospective partnerships, CompanySearch provides you with the knowledgebase you need on global mining companies and their projects.

    This searchable database of worldwide mining companies provides company contact information, capitalization history, and links to company websites, stock exchanges, and regulatory filings on Sedar and Edgar. CompanySearch also includes a list of each company's late-stage projects with downloadable details about each asset.

    You can easily find and identify an individual company or a set of companies based on location, commodity, stock and share information, and criteria related to directly held late-stage projects. Search results can be easily exported to Excel for further sorting and analysis. These exports include additional information on projects drawn from MineSearch, MEG’s robust database of project-related information.

    Each company profile includes

    • Contact information
    • Capitalization history
    • Parent and subsidiary companies
    • All company news releases(updated daily), including those issued by JV partners and others
    • Direct links to corporate information on Edgar, Sedar, stock exchanges, and Yahoo!
    • Advanced-stage project summary tables from MineSearch with links to full project profiles
    • Link to each company’s exploration budget profile in Corporate Exploration Strategies annual study


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