Screen deal flow
Apply a common first-pass screen to incoming mining opportunities before deciding which warrant further work.
Mining investors and lenders
Mining investment screening before due diligence
Screen mining deal flow, compare opportunities and identify potential constraints before committing to full technical, legal or commercial diligence.
Global Mining Dataset gives mining-focused investors, lenders and investment teams a consistent first-pass view of mining assets across infrastructure, water, jurisdiction and other location-based factors.Teams can apply a repeatable screening framework across individual deals, investment pipelines and existing portfolios.
The problem
Mining deal flow is difficult to compare consistently
Investment teams are often evaluating opportunities at very different levels of maturity.
One asset may arrive with a detailed technical study. Another may have little more than a location, commodity and development history. Public information is fragmented across company materials, government datasets, technical reports and specialist data sources.
Before an opportunity can be compared properly, analysts often need to:
- Verify basic asset information
- Establish an accurate project location
- Gather infrastructure and accessibility data
- Understand water availability and surrounding constraints
- Assess jurisdiction and institutional context
- Consolidate findings into a comparable investment screen
- Repeat the process for every new opportunity
This creates a significant amount of work before the investment question can even be addressed.
A consistent first screen across the investment pipeline
Global Mining Dataset creates a repeatable screening layer across mining assets.
The platform combines standardised asset information with pre-computed location-based metrics, allowing investment teams to evaluate opportunities against the same initial framework.
This provides a structured starting point before project-specific diligence begins.
Full mining diligence is expensive. Technical consultants, legal advisers, environmental specialists, site visits and detailed commercial work should be focused on opportunities that have already passed an initial level of scrutiny.
Global Mining Dataset supports that earlier decision by helping investment teams identify the questions to investigate before significant time and capital are committed.
Compare opportunities
Review assets across the same water, infrastructure, jurisdiction and location-based indicators.
Review portfolios
Apply the same screening framework to existing investments, watchlists and prospective acquisitions.
Analyse private assets
Enterprise users can screen confidential locations and opportunities alongside the public asset universe.
Screen the factors that can change an investment case
Mining projects can look attractive at headline level while having very different development contexts.
Global Mining Dataset provides a consistent first-pass view of several factors that can materially affect project development.
Infrastructure context
A deposit's location relative to transport and power infrastructure can materially influence development requirements.
Review surrounding:
- Roads
- Rail
- Ports
- Power generation
- Electricity transmission
This allows teams to distinguish between projects with fundamentally different infrastructure contexts before commissioning detailed engineering analysis.
Water stress
Water availability can become a major technical, environmental and permitting consideration for mining projects.
Compare assets using standardised indicators covering:
- Baseline water stress
- Future water stress
- Broader basin-level water context
Use these indicators to identify assets where water should become an earlier diligence priority.
Jurisdiction exposure
Investment outcomes depend on more than project geology.
Global Mining Dataset provides a consistent jurisdiction screen using indicators covering areas such as:
- Governance
- Political stability
- Regulatory quality
- Institutional effectiveness
- State fragility
This provides a repeatable starting point for comparing country exposure across an investment pipeline.
Location-based constraints
Additional spatial context can highlight questions that warrant earlier investigation.
Depending on the available data, this can include:
- Nearby population
- Contaminant indicators
- Surrounding mining activity
- Environmental or spatial constraints
- Other characteristics associated with the asset location
These signals direct further analysis toward the location questions most likely to affect the investment case.
From incoming opportunity to diligence decision
Global Mining Dataset supports the early stages of the mining investment process.
Step 1
Define the opportunity set
Start with an individual asset, a pipeline of incoming opportunities or a broader market screen.
Use commodity, geography, project status and other available fields to define the relevant universe.
Step 2
Apply a consistent first screen
Review each asset against the same set of location-based indicators.
This creates a comparable baseline even when the quality of information supplied by sponsors, operators or counterparties differs.
Step 3
Identify potential constraints
Surface infrastructure, water, jurisdiction and other location factors that may materially affect the next stage of analysis.
Step 4
Compare opportunities
Assess projects side by side using a common set of screening assumptions and evidence.
Step 5
Prioritise diligence
Use the first-pass screen to decide which opportunities warrant deeper technical, legal, financial, environmental or commercial investigation.
Step 6
Export the evidence
Move structured screening outputs into investment papers, internal models, deal folders and downstream diligence workflows.
Designed for recurring investment questions
Global Mining Dataset can support questions such as:
Which opportunities in our pipeline deserve a deeper look?
Apply a common screen across incoming deals and identify where further investigation is justified.
How do two mining projects compare beyond headline economics?
Compare infrastructure, water and jurisdiction context before building a more detailed investment view.
Are there obvious constraints we should investigate before commissioning full diligence?
Surface location-based signals early enough to influence the scope of subsequent work.
How does a prospective investment compare with our existing portfolio?
Apply the same screening methodology to new opportunities and current holdings.
Where are the jurisdiction concentrations in our mining portfolio?
Review country-level governance and fragility exposure consistently across multiple assets.
Which assets may have higher infrastructure requirements?
Compare surrounding road, rail, port, generation and transmission context across the portfolio.
Screen the broader market alongside incoming deal flow
Investment teams can combine incoming deal-flow review with proactive market screening.
Global Mining Dataset can also be used to explore the broader mining asset universe.
Search across 25,000+ mines, development projects, prospects and other mineral assets to identify assets that meet defined commodity, geography or development criteria.
This allows teams to move from reactive deal-flow screening toward more systematic market coverage.
Build an initial investment universe of
- Undeveloped copper projects in selected jurisdictions
- Lithium assets at specific development stages
- Producing mines within a target commodity
- Projects in regions with defined infrastructure characteristics
- Assets that meet internal geography or screening criteria
The same screening framework can then be applied across the resulting asset universe.
A structured starting point for investment analysis
The value of a first-pass screen comes from consistency.
When every project is assessed differently, it becomes difficult to know whether differences in the investment view reflect the assets themselves or simply differences in the information available.
Global Mining Dataset applies a common framework before project-specific diligence begins.
A more comparable starting point for deciding
- Which opportunities to investigate
- Which questions require specialist work
- Where potential constraints exist
- Where diligence resources should be concentrated
This gives investment teams a consistent evidence base for investment analysis and professional due diligence.
Prioritise stronger opportunities earlier
Mining investment teams need to determine quickly where further work will create the most value.
A repeatable first-pass screen makes the initial location-based evidence available upfront, reducing the time spent gathering basic information across every opportunity.
Global Mining Dataset helps teams focus their research and specialist resources on the assets that remain.
See how it works
See how Global Mining Dataset can support deal-flow screening, portfolio review and pre-due-diligence analysis across your investment universe.