M-Cubed Research Consulting

Our crucial first step is to conduct a desktop literature review. Our previous work, The Rio Choapa Intervention, was a literature review which prevented an estimated 250,000 USD pre-seed alluvial gold project.

Price: Nominal GDP per Capita + *Accepted Direct Costs

Our literature review will delve into predictive computational models which predict the precense of marine mineral deposits (permissive areas) within your Exclusive Economic Zone.

Included in Desktop Review

Our literature review will detail the known and inferred deposits within, and proximal, to your Exclusive Economic Zone. We will identify where knowledge could be extended – of example, including a wider array of geochemical analyses of critical elements.

Included in Desktop Review

In the first phase of our consultation, we will have identified the gaps in knowledge; collaboration partners in academia; we will have established where to focus our efforts, and the resources we seek to discover.

We will submit a considered proposal for a non-invasive survey to establish the scale of deposits, and apply cursory non-invasive methods to estimate elemental abundance.

Price: (A) Planning Non Invasive Survey: Nominal GDP/Capita + ADC
(B) Conducting Non-Invasive Survey: Survey Costs + 30%

We’ll prepare a preliminary report detailing discoveries of appreciable deposits, and our findings which may reflect on estimating the abundance of critical elements.

Price: Included in Conducting Non-Invasive Survey

Where appreciable deposits are identified, M-Cubed will submit a considered proposal to sample these deposits to ascertain the observed concentrations of critical minerals within the deposit. Our aim is to identify world-class deposits, and to ensure developing countries maintain 100% Ownership.

Price: Survey Costs + 25%

We will determine the concentration of critical elements within your deposits using geochemistry analysis techniques such as Inductively-Coupled Plasma Optical Emmission Spectroscopy. In determining the abundance of critical elements we can determine whether your deposits are world-class.

Price: Analysis Costs + 20%

Our final written reposit will detail how our consultation has added to your nations knowledge of critical mineral deposits within your exclusive economic zone – the findings of this report can be used by you to carry forward into developing your deposit, or to leverage the deposits value for supported conservation.


Price: Nomical GDP per Capita

You have the soverign right to explore, exploit, conserve and manage your resources. That’s what the United Nations Convention On the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) endows you with within your Exclusive Economic Zone.

Our Consultation will empower you to own 100% of any deposit we identify, and to determine whether developing your resource, or conserving it – is right for you and your communites.

Our OWN YOUR OCEAN campaign will grow to allow companies to sponsor Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) in your Exclusive Economic Zones. Together, we’ll leverage your known resources to gain support for conservation, to aid your sustainable development in the intermediate term.

We’ll share all the data we’ve collected with you, and surrender any samples which are not subject to an exemption.

Mine better, Mine less. Our activity identifies exceptional deposits, to ensure marine mining is conducted only in exceptional circumstances.