Earth AI is vertically integrating the search for critical minerals

Photo: ORE TRUCK – Utah Copper Company, Bingham Canyon Mine, State Route 48, Copperton, Salt Lake County, Utah – August, 1972. Photo credit: Jack E. Boucher / Library of Congress via Wikimedia Commons. Public Domain. Article by Tim De Chant. TechCrunch – April 29, 2026.

A model is only as good as its data, and for Roman Teslyuk, the data wasn’t coming fast enough. “I hate delays,” Teslyuk, founder and CEO of Earth AI, told TechCrunch. For the last few years, Earth AI has been searching for critical minerals like copper, platinum, and palladium in parts of Australia where no one thought there would be any. The startup’s AI models suggested a few spots that have proven themselves promising, but locating rock with the highest concentration of minerals has been slower than Teslyuk would like. The problem, he said, was the labs. […]

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