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Mapping Potential: A Guide to Evaluating Usable Acreage for Greenfield Aggregate Sites
Whether you’re an established aggregate producer looking to expand, or an entrepreneur venturing into the industry, discovering and evaluating greenfield sites for their usable acreage is a critical step in growing your aggregate business. Greenfield sites—those lands untouched by previous mining—are potential goldmines. But unlocking their potential calls for a systematic and strategic approach. Let’s explore the step-by-step process of how to determine the usable acreage of a greenfield site[…]
The 5 Key Benefits of Mineralocity Aggregates
Mineralocity Aggregates, our dynamic and versatile platform, is equipped with a plethora of features designed to elevate your operations. To get you started, here’s a curated list of the most beneficial functionalities that truly set it apart. 1) Wealth of Market Knowledge: The robust Mineralocity Aggregates platform provides clients with a vast range of market intelligence and knowledge, granting them access to insights that may not otherwise be available within[…]
Revolutionizing the U.S. Mining Industry with Comprehensive Visualization
June 2, 2023, marked a significant milestone in the U.S. mining industry as Burgex Inc. unveiled an innovative, game-changing platform – Mineralocity. Aiming to reshape the landscape of the industry, Mineralocity presents a comprehensive, verified, and visually searchable map of all commercial mines in the United States. Developed in direct response to the growing national focus on the revitalization of infrastructure and the burgeoning green economy, Mineralocity delivers a level[…]
Mapped: Crushed Stone, Sand, and Gravel Production
Crushed stone, sand, gravel, and other construction aggregates account for half of the industrial minerals produced in the United States. These materials represent a $29 billion per year business in the country. The map above from our sponsor Burgex uses data from Mineralocity to show where aggregates are produced in America. What Are Aggregate Minerals? Aggregates are a variety of materials produced in pits or quarries, including sands, gravel, and crushed stone. They are[…]
Cities’ Building Blocks
Visualizing One Year of Sand, Gravel, and Stone Consumption in the U.S.
Aggregate minerals, which include raw materials such as sand, gravel, and stone, are the building blocks of our cities and an integral part of the U.S. economy. From being used to make the concrete that shapes our buildings to being the foundation of our roads, aggregates are necessary to maintain our quality of life. But just how much do we rely on these raw materials each year? To explore the[…]
Pioneering a Sustainable Future: My Vision for Burgex Mining Consultants
As the CEO of Burgex Mining Consultants, I’ve always been driven by a powerful and inspiring purpose – to create a better, more sustainable future by advancing the synergies between humanity and nature. This conviction is at the very core of our company, guiding every decision we make and shaping the way we approach our work in the mineral resource and aggregate industries. Our “why” statement, influenced by Simon Sinek’s[…]
CONEXPO-CON/AGG 2023: Burgex Unveils Mineralocity Aggregates Platform Amid Groundbreaking Industry Innovations
Last week, the Burgex team attended the highly anticipated CONEXPO-CON/AGG 2023 trade show in Las Vegas, Nevada, where we proudly represented our new Mineralocity Aggregates platform. This revolutionary tool offers market intelligence and land research services to the construction aggregates industry across the United States, providing invaluable insights for both market analysis and land research. CONEXPO-CON/AGG 2023 exceeded all expectations, attracting over 139,000 construction and fluid power professionals from 133[…]
The Architect Behind Mineralocity: Jake Tanner
My Background As an experienced geographic information system (GIS) analyst in the oil/gas and wireless infrastructure industries, I was excited to help Burgex improve its consulting projects through added innovation to GIS processes. During my work with various GIS analytics, I discovered and implemented techniques to not only enhance the time line outputs of our data and visuals, but also explore deeper and wider applications of GIS analytics in the[…]
Evolution of Mineralocity
By: Jenny Deems, Inside Sales Rep for Mineralocity When I started at Burgex Mining Consultants more than two-and-a-half years ago, Mineralocity Aggregates was an idea, a thought, a “what if” dreamed up by Stuart Burgess and Chris Summers. Today, as Mineralocity Aggregates team lead, I have the privilege of introducing Mineralocity Aggregates to government agencies, consulting firms, investment companies, aggregate producers, and suppliers to the aggregate industry. I assist subscribers and potential subscribers with[…]
February Newsletter: How a Mining Engineer uses Mineralocity
Q&A with Tyler Peck, a Mining Engineer at Burgex Q: What is your role at Burgex? I am a mining engineer, specifically within the consulting group. I started my career seven years ago doing mining engineering work in the construction aggregate space and have been at Burgex for more than three years. Q: What types of projects do you typically work on? Mine design, and mine planning such as mine/site[…]
Dodge Construction Network’s Dataset now Integrated With Mineralocity Aggregates
Mineralocity Aggregates is excited to announce a new strategic partnership with Dodge Construction Network, the leading provider of construction market intelligence. This partnership allows us to provide our customers with valuable insights into future construction aggregate demand. The dataset includes location-based information on where construction dollars will be spent and where aggregate demand is heading. This type of information is essential for businesses in the construction aggregates industry as it[…]