Guides
Practical guides for finding mineral claims, tracking tenure deadlines, and turning exploration data into maps people can actually read.
Finding and mapping mineral claims from public registry data, jurisdiction by jurisdiction.
Search British Columbia mineral claims by company or claimholder, import the tenures into Exploration Maps, style them, and export…
Read guide →The complete guide to making a mining claims map: import public claim data, shapefiles, KML, GeoJSON, or drillhole CSVs, style you…
Read guide →Search Ontario mining claims by company name or claim number from public MLAS data, add them to a map, style them, and export a cl…
Read guide →Search Saskatchewan mineral dispositions by company or claim number and turn them into a styled, investor-ready map in minutes — t…
Read guide →Map Manitoba mining claims by claim/tenure number: find numbers in iMaQs, pull boundaries into a styled map, and export — with hon…
Read guide →Search Newfoundland and Labrador mineral exploration licences by company or licence number from public GeoAtlas data, map a projec…
Read guide →Search Quebec mining claims (titres miniers) by titleholder or claim number from Quebec's public GESTIM dataset, map them, and exp…
Read guide →Search Yukon quartz mining claims by owner or grant number, pull the boundaries into a styled map, and export — with honest notes …
Read guide →What MTO is, what it is authoritative for, and how to search, map and monitor BC mineral claims around it.…
Read guide →Search by registered owner to see a company's BC land position — competitor research, project generation and due diligence.…
Read guide →Official registry, searchable fields and Exploration Maps support for each Canadian jurisdiction — with links to the province-spec…
Read guide →Tracking good-to-dates, expiry deadlines and changes to the government record.
How BC good-to-dates work, what moves them, and how to get reminders before a claim lapses.…
Read guide →Building maps that hold up in an investor deck, a news release or a technical report.
Build investor-ready exploration maps for decks, project overviews, and news releases: pick a branded theme, set a 16:9 layout, ke…
Read guide →Create a target generation map: dashed target outlines over claims, labelled rationale per target, disclosure-safe wording, and an…
Read guide →Create a mining infrastructure map: roads, power, rail and facilities layered over your property, distance rings to ports and town…
Read guide →Figure elements, datum labelling, captions and numbering for technical report maps — and why no software can make a map "compliant…
Read guide →Basemap choice, scale bar, north arrow, distance rings, title block and export settings — the elements that separate a figure from…
Read guide →An honest comparison of mining map tools for junior exploration teams: Exploration Maps, QGIS, ArcGIS, MapInfo, and Illustrator. W…
Read guide →Turning collars, assays and intercepts into a figure people can read.
Collar CSV to finished drill hole map: columns, coordinate fixes, intercept callouts, target and claims context, and news-release …
Read guide →File formats, imports, and where a full desktop GIS is still the right tool.
Import GeoJSON into a mining map in one click. Convert Shapefiles free at mapshaper.org, assign layer roles for automatic styling,…
Read guide →Import drill collars, soil geochem, and rock samples from a CSV into Exploration Maps: required columns, fixing UTM and lat/long c…
Read guide →Shapefile vs GeoJSON vs KML vs CSV for exploration mapping — what each format is for, the gotchas (missing .prj, UTM coordinates),…
Read guide →Enterprise GIS against a focused figure builder — what each is actually for.…
Read guide →QGIS for analysis and projection management, Exploration Maps for presentation figures. Most teams use both.…
Read guide →Comparing Exploration Maps and MapInfo Pro for creating mining exploration maps. See which tool is faster and more practical for j…
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