America's next mine doesn't need to be found. It needs to be reopened.
We built software to work out which one. Minority Mining ranks idle American mining assets on the public record — geology, permits, title, production history — to identify the ones worth restarting.
Colorado mining assets, scored and ranked from the public record
The premise
Assets significantly
undervalued.
Minority Mining was founded on a simple observation: domestic precious metals assets are significantly undervalued strategic resources.
The founders had been tracking geopolitical risk and U.S. supply chain vulnerability, and kept running into the same pattern — a deepening national dependence on foreign sources for materials critical to defense, while gold and silver markets signaled a strategic importance that wasn't yet priced in. Approaching the problem from opposite directions, one from risk and one from the asset side, they arrived at the same conclusion.
On many of these properties the work has already been done once. Assays, drill logs, permits, title records and operating histories often already exist, scattered across state archives, federal databases and county filing cabinets. How much of that record survives varies enormously from one mine to the next — some have a complete paper trail, others have almost nothing. Measuring that difference is precisely what our scoring model is for.
The method
We stopped asking brokers.
Mining opportunities usually arrive through a broker network or fragmented market chatter — filtered, priced, and already picked over. We wanted the unfiltered version, so we built a tool to assemble it ourselves.
The platform aggregates and cross-references public datasets that have never been read side by side:
The scoring model
Eight things we measure.
Every Colorado mining asset in the database is scored across the same eight dimensions. No narrative, no relationships, no seller's deck — the same questions asked of every property, answered from the record.
Reserve grade
How much metal each ton of rock actually carries, from certified assay work rather than promotional estimates.
Metallurgical validation
Whether an independent party has confirmed that the ore can be processed at the recovery rates claimed.
Permitting status
Which authorizations are already held and active, and which would have to be won from scratch.
Land ownership
Whether the ground is fee-simple patented land or a federal claim, and how clean the chain of title is.
Exploration upside
Mapped vein systems and structural targets that were identified historically but never drilled out.
Infrastructure access
Roads, power, water, seasonal access, and honest distance to anywhere the material can be processed.
Production history
Verified tonnage and grade from prior operating periods — what the mine actually produced, not what it was said to hold.
Acquisition feasibility
Whether there is a realistic, documented path to controlling the asset, or whether it is locked up indefinitely.
Our mission
Find the American mines worth reopening — and prove it with the record.