Rare earth land intelligence
Know which ground is worth claiming.
Five federal datasets joined to every parcel, then scored on five weighted pillars. Rank a district before a competitor finishes reading the county file.
228,985 deposits, one index.
Every recorded resource site in the USGS MRDS set, joined to the same parcel geometry at CRS 4326. Rare earth first, because that is the thesis — 1,016 of those records are REE-bearing, and 893 of them sit inside the lower 48.
Figures read from the production database on 24 Aug 2026. The map shows 106 markers — our two live parcel counties plus REE occurrences thinned on a grid so they spread rather than pile up.
Mineral carries the heaviest weight.
Deposit proximity on a 50 km exponential decay, deposit density log-normalised, plus a bonus for REE-bearing records within range. Nothing downstream rescues bad ground, so this pillar is worth more than any two others combined.
Layer: USGS MRDS · national, live.
A railhead decides what counts as a deposit.
Census TIGER roads and rail, measured as haulage distance rather than drawn as decoration — road on a 10 km decay weighted 0.6, rail on 50 km weighted 0.4. For bulk concentrate the distance to a loadout is often the whole margin.
Layers: Roads (Census TIGER) · Rail Lines (Census TIGER) — national, live, and drawn on the map beside this.
The pillar we will not pretend is live.
Build measures flood exposure across the buildable footprint, which is a question about a lot line rather than a region — so the map is on that Orange County block, not a state. Those are real FEMA NFHL polygons over real assessor parcels, and they say something worth knowing: 37 of the 41 zones on this block are Zone A — Special Flood Hazard Area, the 100-year floodplain, no base flood elevation determined. Four are Zone X. That is the entire block inside the St Johns floodplain, which is exactly the kind of thing you want to find before you make an offer, not after.
The layer is built, the ingest is written, the scoring code is written.
What is missing is the data in production: the flood_zones table has zero rows there, so the pillar returns its neutral value on every live parcel and contributes nothing to a real score. Soil is worse and named here for the same reason — 117,843 rows carry attributes and not one carries geometry. We would rather show you the gap than smooth it.
It is tagged not in prod in the layer panel, drawn muted in every score breakdown, and it changes the day the ingest is promoted.
Layer: FEMA Flood Zones (NFHL) — drawn here, zero rows in production. Soil (USDA SSURGO) — attributes only, no geometry.
Water, down to the block.
Strategic scores distance to NHD hydrology on a 25 km decay over a base allowance. Separation and refining are water problems before they are anything else, and the answer changes parcel by parcel — which is why it is measured onto real assessor geometry, not a district outline.
1,156,914 parcel records are in production today, carrying ownership, acreage and activity class normalised to one schema.
Layers: NHD Hydrology (national, live) · Parcels (county assessors, county by county) — both drawn on the map beside this.
Separation is grid-bound.
EIA high-voltage transmission and substation locations on a 25 km decay. Mining ore is one problem; separating and refining it is a power problem, and a site forty miles from adequate capacity is a site with a substation on its critical path.
Layers: EIA Power Transmission · Electric Substations (HIFLD) — national, live, and drawn on the map beside this.
One number. Five arguments.
The composite is the easy part. What makes it defensible is that every contribution stays visible, so a committee argues with the parts instead of the total — and the layer pillars and the score pillars are the same five, so nothing is scored on data that isn’t on the map.
Four of the five are live on national data. The fifth is labelled everywhere it appears. Weights are configurable per mandate — a lithium brine thesis and a carbonatite thesis do not score the same ground the same way.
The map beside this is not a picture of that. It is a block of 246 Orange County assessor records — ownership, acreage, use class, valuation, zoning, risk and the scored composite — exported straight out of the platform. Click any parcel and you get the record panel the product opens.
Source: county assessor roll via FL DOR, held in our parcels table. Enrichment and score computed by the product’s own functions, not re-derived for this page.
National layers. Parcels county by county.
The federal layers are national from day one. Parcel records are ingested one county at a time and promoted only after every metric passes, so what you query is verified rather than merely loaded.
Orange (492,317) and Palm Beach (664,597) counties, Florida — all ingest metrics passed.
Broward loaded but unverified. Priority western counties follow.
Mineral deposits, power transmission, roads, rail and hydrology across the full country.
FEMA flood zones and USDA soil. Named here because the Build pillar is reserved for them.
Send us the district you can’t get comfortable with.
Name a claim block, a county, or a mineral class. We come back with the full stack on that ground and the score, with the weights shown.
We’ll come back within two business days with the layer stack and the score on that ground.