Report Extractor
The fastest way to assemble the historical context of any exploration project.
Stop Reading. Start Interpreting.
The biggest bottleneck in early-stage exploration is not a lack of data; it is the time required to compile it. The Report Extractor automates the discovery phase. Define your Area of Interest (AOI), and STRATUM queries connected government databases, returning every intersecting historical report, spatially organised, scored for relevance, and ready to analyse.
Under the Hood
Connected Data Sources
STRATUM directly interfaces with public geoscience databases, starting with Western Australia WAMEX and supported New Zealand NZPAM datasets. When you define an AOI, the engine does not just run a text search; it performs a complex spatial intersection against the reported footprints of tens of thousands of historical tenements and project areas.
Relevance Scoring
Not all overlapping reports are useful. STRATUM applies a multi-factor scoring algorithm to every returned report to surface the highest-value data first. Reports are ranked based on:
- Spatial Overlap: The percentage of the report footprint that intersects your specific AOI.
- Dataset Richness: Prioritizes reports containing structured tabular data (e.g., collar files, drillhole assays, surface geochemistry) over those with only scanned PDFs.
- Commodity Match: Higher weighting for reports mentioning your target commodities.
- Recency: Newer reports generally contain higher-quality digital data and are ranked accordingly.
Drillhole Surfacing
Where available, the Report Extractor parses the connected metadata to extract drillhole collars associated with historical reports and plots them directly onto the map. This allows you to visually verify if historical drilling actually tested your specific target area before you even open the report PDF.
- Identifies drillholes referenced in historical reports that have never been digitised into government databases, expanding the known drilling inventory within your tenement area beyond what official records show.
Geological Context
The extractor overlays your AOI and the retrieved report footprints on top of the latest and highest-resolution state geological mapping available for that jurisdiction. This provides immediate stratigraphic and structural context, allowing you to correlate historical work areas with known geological domains instantly.
How It Fits Your Workflow
Using Traditional Methods
- Open the government portal and draw a box.
- Download a CSV of 400 overlapping reports.
- Manually open each PDF to see if the work was actually on your ground or just nearby.
- Try to find the data files hidden in appendices.
- Spend four days organising a spreadsheet before looking at the geology.
Using STRATUM
- Define your exact Area of Interest polygon in STRATUM.
- Review a ranked list of reports prioritized by relevance and dataset richness.
- See exactly where historical drillholes collar within your AOI.
- Shortlist the high-value reports.
- Export a clean, structured CSV of your findings and move straight into interpretation.
What's Coming
STRATUM is in active development. These capabilities are planned for upcoming releases.
Historical Context Panel
Instantly surface nearby mines and prospects from MINEDEX, enriched with AI-assisted production history, deposit classification, and source links.
Heritage Overlay
Automatic flagging of registered Aboriginal and historic heritage sites within and near your AOI, with severity tiers and plain-language consent guidance.
South Australia Region Support
Full Report Extractor coverage for South Australia (SARIG) report databases.
Tenement Cross-Reference
Automatically link loaded reports to current tenure holders and flag when historical work sits on ground currently held by active explorers.
Undigitised Report Parsing
AI-assisted extraction of structured data from pre-digital era scanned PDFs, recovering drillhole collars and assay data that never made it into government databases.