Pit-to-port causality
Extraction, processing, and logistics resolved into one causal model — grade, recovery, and throughput tied to verified intensity and impact.
ST · Mining & Natural Resources
Stratum.
iQuantile Stratum for Mining & Natural Resources
In an industry where license-to-operate erodes between audits and a single tailings event can erase decades of trust, productivity alone is no longer a defense. Stratum reconciles pit-to-port operations with water, biodiversity, community, and provenance — continuously.
For majors, mid-tier producers, and resource developers carrying IRMA, GISTM, TNFD, and CSRD obligations on the same operating ledger as throughput and grade.
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The problem
Productivity without a license to defend it.
Mine planning lives in one system. Environmental compliance lives in another. Community engagement lives in a binder. Tailings data is reported quarterly. Water balance is reconciled at year-end. The shipment leaves the port with a provenance attestation that the buyer's procurement desk will, sooner or later, ask you to prove.
Regulators and investors no longer accept annual disclosure. GISTM expects continuous tailings assurance. IRMA expects responsible-sourcing evidence offtakers can query. TNFD expects nature-related impacts disclosed at the asset. The mine that cannot reconcile production with license-to-operate in the same loop will lose both.
The solution
Pit-to-port, continuously verified.
iQuantile Stratum resolves extraction, processing, logistics, water, tailings, biodiversity, and community engagement into one causal model. Telos prescribes the plan change that defends grade and throughput without burning the license. Conscience reconciles every shipment to IRMA, GISTM, TNFD, and CSRD continuously — provenance ships from the ledger, not from a binder.
Water & tailings integrity
Water balance and tailings monitored continuously, modeled against GISTM and jurisdictional thresholds — alerts on the move that matters, not the noise.
Community & rights-holder
Engagement, grievance, and benefit-sharing outcomes reconciled to the operating ledger — license-to-operate becomes a queryable fact.
Responsible sourcing
Provenance from face to offtake reconciled — IRMA, chain-of-custody, and customer due-diligence answered from one ledger.
Telos plan prescription
Telos correlates pit sequencing with downstream intensity, water draw, and community impact — prescribes the plan change that compounds.
Disclosure-grade outputs
GISTM, IRMA, CSRD, and TNFD evidence assembled continuously from operations — exported in the formats regulators and investors consume.
How Telos works in mining
An example.
A water-quality drift surfaces downstream of a leach pad. Telos correlates it with the new ore body brought online last week, the upgraded flocculant dosing, the prior week's rainfall, the downstream community water-use signals, and the open GISTM commitment on that catchment.
The causal driver is isolated. The plan adjustment is prescribed against verified throughput and license risk together. The community notification is drafted from the ledger. The disclosure entry is assembled before the regulator asks.
Telos
Mine plan / fleet
Processing (MES)
Water sensors
Tailings (GISTM)
Air & biodiversity
Community engagement
Offtake & chain-of-custody
Energy & emissions
Drift detectedPlan + dosingRain + downstreamCausal driverPrescribed plan
Compliance frameworks active in this industry pack
Pre-configured for the regulators that matter.
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Standards mapped from signal to control to disclosure.
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Responsible mining
03 standards
IRMAICMM Mining PrinciplesTSM
02
Tailings & safety
03 standards
GISTMOHS jurisdictionalISO 45001
03
Disclosure & nature
04 standards
CSRDTNFDGHG ProtocolEU Battery Regulation (minerals)
The return
What changes for the business.
Productivity defended by license
Throughput and grade prescribed against the same ledger that proves license-to-operate — no parallel optimization, no end-of-quarter surprise.
Tailings & water as facts
GISTM and water-balance assurance generated continuously from sensors and operations — assurance ships from the ledger, not from a binder.
Premium provenance to offtakers
Responsible-sourcing attestations buyers' procurement desks accept on first pass — new offtake corridors open on verified evidence.
Transition finance qualifies
Sustainability-linked and transition-finance instruments price on the live portfolio ledger — not on consultants' year-end estimates.
The path
Every Stratum deployment begins with an Assessment.
Before any technology is introduced, our mining experts assess your operations across extraction, processing, water, tailings, community, and provenance — the blueprint becomes implementation, implementation becomes intelligence, verification, and growth.
01Assessment
Operations · Water · Tailings · License
Site-by-site diagnostic across mine plan, processing, water, tailings, community, and offtake — license-to-operate exposure modeled against productivity.
- Operations and environmental diagnostic across the asset and its catchment
- License-to-operate gap analysis modeled against IRMA, GISTM, and TNFD
- Cost-of-inaction quantified against permit risk, offtake drag, and capital cost
- Production, water, tailings, and community indicator set with embedded KPIs
- Regulatory mapping (IRMA, GISTM, ICMM, TNFD, CSRD, jurisdictional permits)
- Sequencing tied to permit cycles, offtake reviews, and community commitments
02Framework Design
IRMA · GISTM · TNFD · CSRD
Indicators owned by the COO, the Head of Sustainability, and the Head of Tailings — signed, not aspirational.
03Implementation
Stratum · Agents
We stay embedded until the operating ledger produces verified output across pit, plant, and port.
- Stratum configured across the asset, ledger live across mine plan, MES, sensors, and chain-of-custody
- Function agents deployed across planning, water, tailings, community, and offtake workflows
- Change management, contractor onboarding, and front-line playbook rollout
- Causal modeling across pit, plant, water, tailings, community, and offtake signals
- Prescriptive plan and dosing moves tied to verified intensity and license impact
- Continuous learning against the operational ground truth of the asset
04Intelligence
Telos · Q-Core
Telos reasons across productivity and license continuously — prescribing the plan move, not describing last month's report.
05Verification
Conscience · Evidence
Every shipment, tailings facility, and community commitment reconciled against the standards regulators already enforce.
- Audit-grade reconciliation against IRMA, GISTM, TNFD, and CSRD continuously
- Multi-framework evidence assembled from operations — not annual scrambles
- Unverified provenance blocked at the offtake gate — no chain-of-custody leakage
- New offtake corridors open on verified provenance and impact, not annual reports
- Sustainability-linked refinancing prices on the live portfolio ledger
- Permit and license renewals supported by continuous evidence the regulator queries directly
06Growth
Trust · Capital
Verified responsibility unlocks new offtake, transition finance, and capital underwritten on the live impact ledger.
Ready to see Stratum?
Demos are tuned to your specific asset and jurisdiction. Expect a 14-day intake. We'll show you what your license-to-operate exposure looks like against verified operations — and what closing the gap means for productivity, offtake, and capital cost.