Ekometall and GexplOre have transformed Austria's centuries-deep, German-language mining archive into the most comprehensive, structured exploration dataset ever assembled for a single Austrian land position.
documented points of interest identified
ranked exploration hotspots
km² area of interest across the portfolio
historical documents processed end-to-end
source material span, in German and English
EU CRMA strategic materials represented
Austria's mining history spans thousands of years and has produced some of the most extensive geological and mining records in the European Alpine region. The vast majority of that knowledge has remained inaccessible to modern exploration, dormant in German-language publications, hand-drawn maps, and scanned archive files.
Ekometall engaged GexplOre, a specialist French geosciences firm, to close that gap. Through a two-phase workflow, first transforming the raw archive into a georeferenced knowledge base, then building a dedicated AI query platform on top, the program now gives Ekometall's technical team direct access to every documented occurrence on the portfolio, traceable in a few clicks back to its original archive page.
The completion of this program coincides with the European Union's accelerating push to secure domestic primary supply of strategic raw materials under the Critical Raw Materials Act. Ekometall's dataset now carries documented references to seven CRMA strategic commodities relevant to its land position.
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