Discovery

Our geologists search for and discover new sources of the minerals that make our modern lives possible. To be a responsible company, we must find deposits we can develop and mine in a safe and sustainable way. Technology is expanding the frontiers of mining, so the search takes us into many more remote and extreme environments.

We have regional exploration teams, and our exploration offices are co-located within commodity businesses so we can draw upon shared capabilities on a coordinated and collaborative basis.

Our search falls into two categories: greenfield exploration to find entirely new resources; and brownfield exploration to identify additional resources close to existing operations.

We benefit from developing and using world-class expertise and leading technologies. We use geological, geochemical, geophysical, and remote sensing tools to find deposits.