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 →Track British Columbia mineral claim expiry dates without a spreadsheet. How good-to-dates work, what moves them, and how to get email reminders at 90, 30 and 1 day. Free for 10 claims. Verify in Mineral Titles Online.
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 drill hole map for a news release or technical report: required columns, coordinate fixes, how to present assay intercepts, callout discipline, claims and target context, and export settings.
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 →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 →Practical guidance on preparing map figures for an NI 43-101 technical report — figure elements, coordinate system and datum labelling, captions and numbering. The QP determines what the report requires.
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 →Search Yukon quartz mining claims by owner or grant number, pull the boundaries into a styled map, and export — with honest notes on placer claims and what the public data covers.
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.
Read guide →The map elements that make an exploration figure look competent: basemap choice, scale bar, north arrow, distance rings, title block, and export settings for slides, reports and news releases.
Read guide →What Mineral Titles Online is, what it is the authority for, and how to search, map and monitor British Columbia mineral claims — including where Exploration Maps helps and where you still need MTO.
Read guide →Search BC mineral claims by registered owner to see a company's land position — for competitor research, project generation, due diligence and neighbouring-ground checks. Verify ownership in MTO.
Read guide →The official mineral tenure registry for each Canadian jurisdiction Exploration Maps supports, what you can search in each, and which ones can be searched, mapped and monitored directly.
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