How-to Guides
Step-by-step guides for creating professional mining exploration maps — claims maps, drill results maps, investor presentations, and more.
Search British Columbia mineral claims by company or claimholder, import the tenures into Exploration Maps, style them, and export a clean investor-ready map. Includes Mineral Titles Online verification steps.
Read guide →The complete guide to making a mining claims map: import public claim data, shapefiles, KML, GeoJSON, or drillhole CSVs, style your claims, and export a clean investor-ready map in minutes. Links to province-by-province search guides.
Read guide →Turn a drill collar CSV into a clean drill results map for news releases and NI 43-101 reports: required columns, fixing coordinate issues, hole-ID callouts and intercept labels, and a print-ready export.
Read guide →Build investor-ready exploration maps for decks, project overviews, and news releases: pick a branded theme, set a 16:9 layout, keep the legend clean, add callouts, and export sharp PNGs and PDFs.
Read guide →Import GeoJSON into a mining map in one click. Convert Shapefiles free at mapshaper.org, assign layer roles for automatic styling, and fix common coordinate-system issues.
Read guide →Which basemap for a mining map? Light for technical reports, Satellite for investor decks, Topographic for access maps, Dark for social — with a quick-reference table.
Read guide →Export a mining map as a print-ready PDF: page sizes for NI 43-101 figures and news releases, 3× pixel ratio for print, and watermark-free download.
Read guide →Add a distance ring to a mining map: place the centre, set a true-distance radius in km, label the arc, and use outside-shade to focus attention on your project.
Read guide →Add a scale bar and north arrow to a mining map in two clicks, position them by corner, and meet the standard expectations for NI 43-101 report figures.
Read guide →Create a target generation map: dashed target outlines over claims, labelled rationale per target, disclosure-safe wording, and an investor-ready export.
Read guide →Create a mining infrastructure map: roads, power, rail and facilities layered over your property, distance rings to ports and towns, and a clean export for studies and decks.
Read guide →Import drill collars, soil geochem, and rock samples from a CSV into Exploration Maps: required columns, fixing UTM and lat/long coordinate issues, labelling points, and exporting a clean map.
Read guide →Build NI 43-101-ready map figures: the standard element checklist (scale, north arrow, legend, datum, date), where each lives in Exploration Maps, and a print-quality export.
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 clean investor-ready figure. Includes MLAS verification steps.
Read guide →Search Saskatchewan mineral dispositions by company or claim number and turn them into a styled, investor-ready map in minutes — then verify in MARS.
Read guide →Map Manitoba mining claims by claim/tenure number: find numbers in iMaQs, pull boundaries into a styled map, and export — with honest notes on what the public data includes.
Read guide →Search Newfoundland and Labrador mineral exploration licences by company or licence number from public GeoAtlas data, map a project area, and export a clean investor-ready figure. Includes verification steps.
Read guide →Search Quebec mining claims (titres miniers) by titleholder or claim number from Quebec's public GESTIM dataset, map them, and export a clean investor-ready figure. Note: Quebec uses a refreshed public dataset, not a live query.
Read guide →The complete checklist for a professional mining claim map — boundaries, labels, title block, legend, scale, context, inset, and the verification note most maps forget.
Read guide →Build a clear drill results figure for a junior mining news release: plot collars, highlight the headline intercepts, show targets and claims for context, and export a clean PNG or PDF that reads on a phone.
Read guide →Shapefile vs GeoJSON vs KML vs CSV for exploration mapping — what each format is for, the gotchas (missing .prj, UTM coordinates), and how to convert between them free.
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