magmatic Fe-Ti oxide / mineral sands
Titanium prospectivityacross the USA & Canada.
Magmatic iron-titanium oxide and mineral-sand titanium, ranked and explained across the United States and Canada.
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· Australia
Not modelled
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✓ United States
Ranked targets
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✓ Canada
Ranked targets
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Everywhere else
Not modelled
Ranked targets come with national models in the United States and Canada. Next, the models are retrained on the full record and new sources, such as hyperspectral imagery, before we use them to rank and select ground.
How we rank titanium ground
From a country to a decision.
- 01 · Atlas
Know the ground
The geology, structure, recorded deposits, tenure and geochemistry over the ground, on one map with the source of every layer.
See Atlas - 02 · Open Ground
Find ground you can peg
Which ground is open, held or excluded, read from each licensing authority's own register.
See Open Ground - 03 · Prospectivity
Rank it for titanium
The ground scored for titanium, with the evidence behind it and ranked targets in the United States and Canada.
See Prospectivity - 04 · Spectral
Map the alteration
The alteration minerals and the structures that control them, from satellite: regional to district scale, and camp scale from WorldView-3.
See Spectral - 05 · Due Diligence
Check before committing
Tenure, land access, environment and the real cost to hold and test a titanium position.
See Due Diligence -
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The deposit system
The titanium system.
Titanium is a light, strong, corrosion-resistant structural metal, and by tonnage one of the most-consumed critical minerals: the overwhelming majority of it is used not as metal but as brilliant-white titanium dioxide pigment. In the crust it is held almost entirely in two oxide minerals, ilmenite and rutile, which concentrate in two very different settings: dense oxide-rich layers and lenses inside large mafic intrusions, and beach and dune sands where rivers and surf have winnowed the durable heavy minerals together over millions of years.
Read more: the deposit model, why it matters and where it is used +
More on titanium
MineDSS models titanium through both systems.
The deposit model
Magmatic iron-titanium oxide deposits form where slowly crystallising mafic and anorthositic magmas segregate dense ilmenite and titanomagnetite, either as massive layers and dyke-like bodies or as disseminations rich enough to mine. Their calling cards are strong coincident magnetic and gravity responses, mapped mafic-intrusive geology, and a geochemical halo in which iron travels with vanadium and chromium (both of which substitute readily into titanomagnetite), along with magnesium from the host rocks. Heavy-mineral-sand deposits are the sedimentary descendants of such terrains: prolonged weathering releases ilmenite, rutile and zircon, and coastal processes concentrate them into shoreline and palaeo-shoreline strands.
Why it matters
Titanium appears on the critical-minerals lists of the United States, Canada, Australia and the European Union. Titanium metal is irreplaceable in aerospace airframes and engines, naval and chemical-plant hardware, and medical implants, while titanium dioxide pigment is a staple of paint, plastics and paper manufacturing. Supply chains for high-grade feedstock are geographically concentrated, and Western processing capacity is limited, so new, well-located sources of ilmenite and rutile carry genuine strategic weight.
Where it's used
Around ninety per cent of titanium is consumed as titanium dioxide pigment, the opaque white in paints, coatings, plastics and paper. The metal itself, prized for its strength-to-weight ratio and corrosion resistance, goes into airframes, jet-engine components, naval and desalination hardware, chemical-processing equipment, sporting goods and biomedical implants. Titanium alloys with vanadium and aluminium dominate aerospace specifications, which ties titanium demand to the same supply-security concerns as its pathfinder vanadium.
Questions
Titanium: common questions.
Which titanium deposit types does MineDSS model? +
MineDSS models the two systems that supply nearly all titanium: magmatic iron-titanium oxide deposits (massive to disseminated ilmenite and titanomagnetite in mafic and anorthositic intrusions) and heavy-mineral sands, where weathering and coastal processes concentrate durable ilmenite, rutile and zircon into shoreline strands. Both leave a strong, mappable footprint of magnetic response, distinctive geology and iron-vanadium-chromium geochemistry that the model is built to read.
How is the model tested, and where can I run titanium? +
Every MineDSS model is tested before it is served: we withhold whole blocks of ground, rebuild the model without them, and check that it still ranks the anomalous samples there above background, with test ground kept spatially separate. A model that does not pass our release gates is not used, for any mineral, in any country. National models for titanium run in the United States and Canada, with ranked targets. Titanium is not modelled outside those countries. Skill is model-level, never a specific site's measured accuracy, and never a discovery or JORC / NI 43-101 resource claim.
Which pathfinder elements track titanium? +
The classic pathfinders are the iron-titanium oxide association: iron, vanadium and chromium lead the suite (vanadium and chromium substitute directly into titanomagnetite), supported by magnesium, niobium and phosphorus, which flag the mafic host rocks and the apatite-rich phases that accompany many magmatic systems. These elements are part of the geochemical record our models learn from. In a run on any piece of ground, the map itself is read from geology and rock age, gravity and magnetics, radiometrics, terrain, satellite radar and spectral alteration, so it covers ground that has never been sampled.
Does a high MineDSS score mean a deposit or a resource estimate? +
No. A high score means its evidence closely matches ground where samples assay anomalously high for the target mineral, and it merits closer exploration attention. It is not a discovery, not a JORC or NI 43-101 resource or reserve estimate, and not drilling or investment advice. MineDSS ranks prospectivity to help prioritise where to look; confirming whether titanium is present, and in what grade and quantity, still requires field programmes, drilling and independent assessment by qualified professionals.
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The record, the models and the ground they point to.
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MineDSS ranks prospectivity to help you decide where to explore next. It is not a discovery, not a JORC or NI 43-101 resource or reserve estimate, and not drilling or investment advice.