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MineIQ: a single system to oversee a nation’s mining sector.

How eGate deployed national mining oversight in Nigeria with its partner Milky-Way — from exploration in the air to the last truck out.

MineIQ is the Nigeria deployment of LoderaIQ, eGate’s mining-intelligence platform. It is delivered with our strategic partner in Nigeria, Milky-Way, and gives the country a single, auditable system spanning discovery, monitoring, compliance, secured logistics, and oversight.

The challenge

Oversight breaks when the chain is fragmented.

Mining oversight is difficult to run when discovery, monitoring, compliance, logistics, and revenue each sit in separate systems. Regulators need one verifiable view — from what is in the ground to the minerals leaving the country — so that activity can be checked against licences, royalties protected, and diversion flagged for action.

  • Fragmented data across agencies and stages
  • Limited visibility of remote and informal sites
  • Hard to tie movement of minerals to permits and royalties
  • Manual, slow, and difficult to audit end to end
The approach

One engineered system, not off-the-shelf parts.

eGate engineered deep integration across drones, sensors, and mission control as one system, delivered with Milky-Way. Missions are planned end to end — route, waypoints, altitude, and automated capture triggers per sensor — with live in-flight control to reroute the drone or adjust any onboard sensor, from camera to magnetometer to LiDAR. On the ground, secured logistics and chain of custody tie every movement to a permit. Everything feeds one oversight platform.

What the system delivers

From discovery to the last truck out.

Discovery

Aerial survey and AI geological interpretation to identify mineral targets.

Continuous monitoring

Tracking pit expansion, machinery, excavation and stockpiles over time.

Legality & compliance

Detecting illegal mining and checking activity against licence boundaries.

Live imagery & AI analysis

Camera, magnetometer, LiDAR and on-site XRF for imaging, subsurface mapping and grade.

Secure logistics

Postagy for Mining runs chain of custody — permits, checkpoints and export, with convoy security.

Unified oversight

Every stage feeds one platform — real-time visibility, protected royalties, faster response.

Partner & status

Now rolling out across Nigeria.

MineIQ is delivered with our strategic partner in Nigeria, Milky-Way, as a step toward a more accountable, better-governed mining industry — in Nigeria and across Africa. Detailed deployment scope and performance figures are shared with qualified government and institutional stakeholders on request.

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