Artificial intelligence (AI) mining services provider TerraEye is embarking on a pipeline-and-partnership sprint at this year’s Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) held from 1-4 March 2026 in Toronto, Canada.
The PDAC convention, which is set to host the largest trade show in its history this year, is considered the ‘Super Bowl’ of the mineral exploration and mining community. Mining.com.au is a media partner for this year’s convention and will be on the floor.
At this year’s convention, the company will be focusing on converting high-intent conversations into pilots and paid deployments, as well as land strategic data and ecosystem partners.
TerraEye also intends to validate and accelerate the next product milestones and strengthen its position with investors and public-market narratives.
Speaking to Mining.com.au, CEO Mark Wilgucki says PDAC lands at a time when mineral supply chains are being treated as strategic infrastructure.
“In parallel, resource nationalism is no longer an edge-case risk; its a mainstream variable in project planning and valuation,” Wilgucki says.
“Two examples from the last days alone illustrate the direction of travel. DRC cobalt export restrictions/quotas are stressing China’s cobalt supply chain and amplifying price and availability volatility and Zimbabwe has moved to ban exports of raw minerals and lithium concentrates.”
Wilgucki says that these examples are not isolated as they are part of a broader realignment where governments want secure supply, local processing, traceability and strategic control over critical inputs.
Based on PDAC’s program structure and the macro direction of travel, Wilgucki says that the discussions at the convention will likely cluster around critical minerals supply security, energy security, permitting and technology.
“Canada is actively positioning itself within allied supply-chain frameworks (e.g., partnerships and investment initiatives with allied countries),” he tells this news service.
“PDAC continues to emphasise indigenous programs and responsible exploration frameworks as core programming, not fringe topics. PDAC’s keynote themes explicitly include technology and innovation, alongside commodity and mining-industry outlooks.
“The market is moving past generic AI in mining and toward measurable outcomes: faster target screening, better ranking confidence, lower cost-per-insight and tighter feedback loops between office and field.”
TerraEye sits in the ‘decision infrastructure’ layer of exploration and mining, serving as a platform that compresses data, dialogue and decision-making.
Wilgucki says at PDAC, that positioning is directly relevant because the industry’s bottleneck isn’t access to data – rather it is interpretation speed, integration across datasets and alignment on what to do next.
“That is exactly where TerraEye’s model – conversation workflows, target ranking and geophysics/geochemistry fusion – creates leverage,” he says.
TerraEye is an AI-driven Earth observation and exploration platform designed to support exploration teams with integrated targeting, screening, and decision workflows—linking satellite remote sensing with geological context, and increasingly with geophysics and geochemistry.
Write to Aaliyah Rogan at Mining.com.au
Images: TerraEye & PDAC
