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Project Evidence Dossier: reported payments by an asset's linked owners and operators, on the asset page. Only human-confirmed matches — missing evidence is stated, not papered over. That discipline is the product. openore.io

Governance & Transparency: every EITI country page shows what mining paid governments, plus production, exports and the latest EITI Validation. Corridor Governance: that context beside 65 corridors, incl. Lobito.

OpenOre keeps shipping. 3 new features, live now: governance intelligence across 55 countries — 101,837 payment records ingested, standardized and linked to the countries, corridors and assets you track. Data from the EITI International Secretariat (eiti.org). 🧵

4,411,500 drill holes, now in the OpenOre workspace. Australia 4,194,449 Canada 189,712 Sweden 27,339 Open government geoscience surveys. Collars, not assays — we don't publish grades we don't have. One Eastern Goldfields cell holds 141,778 by itself.

The Atlas now opens on satellite by default. Pit outlines, waste dumps, tailings, haul roads — visible from above, invisible on a street map. Plus exact-geometry overlap checks on licence boundaries.

What a drill result needs before it enters OpenOre Signals: hole ID, interval, from-depth, true width. WA1: 38.1 m at 4% Nb2O5 Core: 92 m at 1.25% Li2O Hycroft: 19.6 m at 30.49 g/t Au A grade without an interval is not a result. openore.io

Mercuria delivered 12,000 t of Congolese copper into Project Vault, the US critical minerals reserve. First physical delivery we have recorded. It comes from Gecamines' 20% of Tenke Fungurume, a Chinese-operated mine, moved by a Swiss trader. openore.io

14 Oct: US Treasury asks the World Bank to catalyse deep-sea mining. 15 Oct: Greenland's parliament votes unanimously to ban it to 2029. 16 Oct: the Bank sets US$19bn to 2030, from US$3.6bn. The money is growing. The permission is not. openore.io

FLS booked two Chile copper orders in two days. Neither names the mine. DKK 360m: world's largest gyratory, 40ft SAG, three ball mills, 90+ MW. Commissioning 2029-30. DKK 175m: a second grinding line. Mills are ordered years before concrete. openore.io/signals

Two offtakes this week. One mine running, one not built. Elevra to LG Energy Solution: 240,000 t spodumene over 4 years from an operating Quebec mine. Traxys at El Moto, Spain: exclusive, 10 years from first production. That mine does not exist. openore.io/signals

A connection you cannot audit is a guess. 55,882 links between mines, deposits, licences, ports, power plants and corridors. Every one declares how it was made: 54,603 from geometry 1,074 attribute match 205 by hand 21,383 with a source URL openore.io/atlas

Five processing plants this week. Not one mine. Westwin: $502m nickel refinery, MS Hertha: $100m iron plant, Texas Titan + US Army: Alabama graphite Steenkampskraal: monazite plant Aclara + CAP: rare earths, Chile The bottleneck is not the rock. openore.io/signals

The OpenOre Atlas now opens in satellite view: mines, licenses and corridors on real imagery from the first load. Light, Dark and Terrain are still in the basemap menu. openore.io/atlas

In August we tracked 36 mineral corridors. Today we track 101. 15 are not running. Three of them here: Niger uranium: suspended Reko Diq to Karachi: planned Ring of Fire: under construction Real Atlas views. Each opens at that corridor. openore.io/atlas

Five operations changed state this week. None because of geology. Escondida: mediation requested Centinela: strike begins Sibanye-Stillwater: strike ends Raspadskaya: fire halts output Grota: court clears restart Labour x3, fire x1, court x1. openore.io/signals

Four commitments, one jurisdiction, four days. 30 Sep: Kachi approved, 25,000 t/yr lithium 30 Sep: POSCO plant to open 2 Oct: $1B to expand Cauchari-Olaroz 3 Oct: Glencore's $4B copper project cleared Argentina had the week. openore.io/signals

38 signals needed a location last week. We placed 15 and left 23 unplaced. A place-name match put Sibanye-Stillwater's Stillwater mine in Oklahoma. It is in Montana, 1,490 km away. An alert on the wrong continent isn't a smaller problem than no alert. openore.io/signals

Seven permissions granted last week. One allowed to expire. Kachi approved. Hunter Valley cleared to 2045. Skouries energised. Glencore's $4B copper project cleared. And Gold Fields halted Windfall because a permit lapsed. Permission, not geology. openore.io/signals

We reviewed 303 stories last week and published 64. We also removed 27 duplicates. "Texas startup raises $133M" and "Hertha Metals raises $133m" are the same raise. They share no distinctive word. Counting headlines is not counting events. openore.io/signals

The biggest offtake we published last week was tungsten from a mine in Devon — $1.8B, Tungsten West and Elmet. Same week: $1B US battery metals, $7B US–Argentina corridor, 1,035 g/t gold in Ecuador. The map is wider than the narrative. openore.io/signals