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Turn resource data into useful context. Estimate contained material, calculate gross resource value, work with ore grades, convert units, check critical-mineral status, trace resources into real-world uses, and connect countries with the materials they produce.

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Core Purpose Calculate · Check · Understand
Resource Data Grade · Weight · Value · Supply
Coverage Metals · Minerals · Countries · Uses
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RESOURCE VALUE SNAPSHOT

What Could a Resource
Contain?

TOOL PREVIEW
Copper
1,000,000 t
0.80%
THEORETICAL CONTAINED COPPER 8,000 tonnes Before mining recovery, processing losses, operating costs, capital costs, taxes, royalties, and market adjustments.
01 Input Resource data
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02 Calculate Apply formula
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03 Context Understand result
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FROM DATA TO CONTEXT

Tools Built Around Resource Questions

Resource information often arrives as numbers without enough context. A deposit may be described by tonnage and grade. A commodity may be quoted in pounds while production is reported in tonnes. A country may produce a mineral without controlling the processing stages that give it strategic importance.

Earth Value Index tools are designed to make those numbers easier to interpret while clearly separating rough estimates from actual project economics or investment value.

FEATURED TOOLS

Start With the Core Resource Calculators

These tools answer some of the most common questions about resource quantity, grade, value, and recoverable material.

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VALUE CALCULATOR

Resource Value Calculator

Estimate the gross theoretical value of contained material using quantity and a reference unit value.

Tonnage Grade Reference Value
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GRADE TOOL

Ore Grade Calculator

Calculate ore grade from resource tonnage and contained metal or mineral quantity.

Ore Grade Contained Material
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RESOURCE QUANTITY

Contained Metal Calculator

Estimate theoretical contained metal from deposit tonnage and ore grade.

Tonnes Percent Metal
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DEPOSIT ESTIMATE

Deposit Value Estimator

Build a rough gross-value estimate using deposit size, grade, recovery assumptions, and reference values.

Deposit Recovery Gross Value
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Important: Gross contained-resource calculations are educational estimates. They are not mine valuations and do not account for capital costs, operating costs, recovery losses, financing, taxes, royalties, permitting, infrastructure, environmental obligations, market discounts, or project risk.
TOOL CATEGORIES

Choose the Question You Need to Answer

01

Value & Grade

Estimate contained resources, ore grade, theoretical value, and recoverable quantities.

4 tools 02

Units & Conversion

Convert weights, commodity units, grades, concentrations, and resource measurements.

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Resource Discovery

Connect minerals to countries, technologies, industries, and everyday products.

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Strategic Resources

Check critical-mineral status, supply risk, strategic importance, and related resource categories.

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VALUE & GRADE TOOLS

Understand What a Resource Contains

Work from tonnage, grade, recovery, and reference values without confusing gross contained value with project economics.

01

Resource Value Calculator

Estimate gross theoretical contained-resource value.

Tonnage · Grade · Unit Value 02

Deposit Value Estimator

Add recovery assumptions to a rough resource-value estimate.

Deposit · Recovery · Reference Value 03

Ore Grade Calculator

Calculate percentage or concentration from contained material and total ore.

Grade · Ore · Contained Material 04

Contained Metal Calculator

Estimate theoretical contained metal from tonnage and ore grade.

Tonnes · Percent · Metal
CALCULATOR CONTEXT

Contained Value Is Not the Same as Mine Value

One of the easiest mistakes in resource analysis is multiplying all contained metal by a commodity price and treating the result as the value of a mining project.

Real projects must account for recovery, capital investment, operating cost, mine design, processing, infrastructure, labor, energy, taxes, royalties, financing, environmental obligations, and market conditions.

What Makes One Mineral More Valuable Than Another? →
01
Contained Resource What geology theoretically contains
02
Recoverable Material What processing may realistically recover
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Saleable Product What meets market specifications
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Economic Value What remains after costs and project realities
UNITS & CONVERSION

Work Across Resource Measurement Systems

Resource markets use tonnes, kilograms, pounds, troy ounces, percentages, grams per tonne, parts per million, and other measurement systems.

01
UNIT CONVERSION

Resource Unit Converter

Convert tonnes, kilograms, pounds, troy ounces, grams, and common resource-market weight measurements.

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02
GRADE CONVERSION

Ore Grade Converter

Convert between percent, grams per tonne, parts per million, and selected concentration formats.

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RESOURCE DISCOVERY

Connect Resources to the World Around Them

These tools move beyond calculation and help answer where resources come from and where they are ultimately used.

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RESOURCE → PRODUCT

Resource Use Finder

Select a metal or mineral to see the technologies, products, industries, and infrastructure that use it.

Copper → Grids · EVs · Homes · Electronics
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COUNTRY → RESOURCE

Country Resource Finder

Select a country to see major metals, minerals, energy resources, and strategic materials associated with it.

Chile → Copper · Lithium · Molybdenum
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SIDE-BY-SIDE

Resource Comparison Tool

Evaluate two resources side by side using uses, supply, geology, market structure, processing, and strategic importance.

Copper vs. Aluminum
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STRATEGIC RESOURCES

Understand Criticality and Supply Risk

Strategic importance is not the same thing as high market price. These tools focus on economic importance, supply concentration, processing, and substitution.

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CRITICALITY

Critical Mineral Checker

Check whether a material appears on selected critical-mineral lists and understand why classification can vary by jurisdiction.

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02
SUPPLY CHAIN

Resource Supply Risk Checker

Review factors such as production concentration, processing concentration, substitution, strategic use, and geographic exposure.

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Critical Minerals → Rare Earth Elements → Battery Minerals →
TOOL DIRECTORY

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USE THE TOOLS WITH THE INDEX

Move Between Data and Resource Profiles

Calculators become more useful when the numbers are connected to geology, supply, processing, markets, and real-world uses.

Au

Gold

Price, supply, deposit economics, mining, uses, and resource value.

Cu

Copper

Grade, contained metal, supply, electrical demand, and industrial importance.

Li

Lithium

Battery demand, chemical processing, resource types, supply, and value.

U

Uranium

Ore grades, contained uranium, nuclear fuel markets, supply, and resource economics.

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TOOL METHODOLOGY

Transparent Formulas.
Clear Limitations.

Earth Value Index tools should show what goes into each calculation, explain the formula being used, identify the units, and clearly state what the result does and does not represent.

Where market reference values are used, the relevant product form, unit, date, and source should be identified whenever practical.

Read Our Data Methodology →
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Show the Formula Users should understand how the result was calculated.
02
Identify the Units Tonnes, pounds, ounces, grade, and concentrations matter.
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Explain the Result A calculation without context can easily be misunderstood.
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State the Limitations Educational estimates should never pretend to be project valuations.
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Tools Are One Part of the Resource System

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Resources

Browse metals, minerals, gemstones, energy resources, and individual resource profiles.

Natural Resources Index → 02

Resource Uses

See the materials inside vehicles, homes, smartphones, energy systems, and modern infrastructure.

Resource Uses → 03

Countries

See where major resources are mined, produced, processed, and supplied.

Country Profiles → 04

Markets

Understand reference values, market units, pricing structures, and resource economics.

Resource Markets →
EARTH VALUE INDEX

Turn Resource Numbers Into Useful Context

Use the calculators, resource profiles, country data, market references, and Resource Uses pages together to understand what the Earth's materials are worth and why they matter.

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