World Leader in Hyperspectral Imaging

Core logging for the digital era.

The most advanced hardware. Superior software. The world’s leading spectral geologists. TerraCore combines the most advanced hyperspectral imaging system with the world’s foremost experts in spectral geology to provide fast, accurate core logging, mineral identification and GeoSpectral Images that let you see more in your core or other drilling samples.
Unrivalled Imaging Speeds - 1000m/day

We image entire core boxes with our spectral cameras, each box taking less than 45 seconds. This provides exceptional productivity, and substantially advances drill-core analysis to provide the information needed to rapidly make informed decisions.
sisuMobi

The sisuMobi range includes two or three -camera frameworks, and depending on requirements one or more of OWL LWIR, FENIX VNIR-SWIR, SpecIm VNIR and SpecIm SWIR hyperspectral cameras are mounted with a high resolution colour linescanner. The sisuMobi breaks down into a small payload and can be taken literally anywhere.
sisuChema

The sisuChema is a desktop system designed to capture data at extremely high spatial resolution. Either a SpecIm VNIR or SpecIm SWIR camera is fitted with a macro lens that provides the ability to capture data down to pixel sizes of 50 microns, literally providing imagery that has been described as akin to a spectral thin-section.
sisuROCK

The largest and most powerful system, the sisuROCK is able to mount three cameras and cope with core trays of up to 1.5 metres in length and 60kg weight meaning all sizes of core can be captured. Typically, the camera mounted are the FENIX VNIR-SWIR, OWL LWIR and a high resolution colour linescanner to capture hyperspectral data from 400 to 12000nm. The size of the sisuROCK is best suited to long-term installations, but shorter duration on-site projects are easily undertaken.

What we do

Our Process

Our range of frames and cameras, coupled to IntelliCore’s on-site processing capabilities, provides us with the versatility to image core anywhere, anytime and for any application.
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Technology

We proudly partner with SpecIm, the world’s leading manufacturer of hyperspectral cameras. Their cameras are compact, portable and rapidly acquire high quality data. The pushbroom technology we employ allows for entire coretrays to be imaged in a single pass in under one minute, meaning that we can rapidly process large volumes of core.
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Software - IntelliCore

IntelliCore works rapidly and accurately to provide results that can be relied on - a system that controls data processing, ports seamlessly to our IntelliCore Viewer, exports products for integration into client databases, and links to third party software packages.
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Why Choose TerraCore

We are the World Leader in Hyperspectral Imaging

In Exploration

Hyperspectral Imaging reveals alteration patterns that the human eye simply can’t see. Almost all alteration minerals can be identified and mapped in the infrared, even when fine-grained, and their presence can be objectively and consistently quantified. Quantification provides the means to build accurate sections and 3-D models to ensure that alteration is properly mapped. Using hyperspectral data allows for the hydrothermal architecture to be rapidly unravelled and understood, and rapid delivery of data permits dynamic drill programs that can be configured on the fly to deliver maximum success.

In Geometallurgy

In addition to rapid and accurate mapping of known deleterious phases (talc, smectite clays etc.), hyperspectral data can be integrated with other datasets such as geochemistry, and mathematically correlated to bench test results. Those outputs are used to build predictive models of mining and metallurgical parameters.With our diverse team of geologists, geometallurgists and mathematicians, TerraCore has successfully applied hyperspectral core imaging to geometallurgical studies in both feasibility and production settings for major mining companies. Our team is uniquely suited to provide wide- ranging geometallurgical solutions and consulting.

The Team

Board of Directors & Executive Management

CEO and Director - Dave Browning is a globally experienced and certified professional geologist with extensive knowledge of hyperspectral applications. He obtained his M.Sc. in Geology from the University of Idaho for his spectrally-focused thesis aimed at improving mineral exploration efficiencies through hyperspectral airborne spectroscopy. He continued to utilize airborne spectroscopy during his time as an exploration geologist with Miranda Gold until 2014 when he joined TerraCore. As Regional Manager of the Americas for TerraCore, he played a large role in the company’s growth from 2014-2021. He was the Vice President – Exploration for Westward Gold beginning in June 2021, where he leveraged new technologies in heavily explored terrains to develop new drill targets at the company’s various projects. He was also instrumental in orchestrating several private placements and strategic partnerships. In October 2023, he rejoined TerraCore to direct their growth as the leader in hyperspectral applications for the mining industry.
Dave Browning | https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-browning-geology/

CTO and Director - Phil Harris is one of a very few subject matter experts in the field of spectral geology. He was awarded a Ph.D. in Geology from the Rand Afrikaans University (University of Johannesburg) in 1999, for geological research on a high-grade metamorphic terrain in Antarctica. He has 18 years of experience in industry providing a broad range of remote sensing and spectral geology consulting, and has gained experience in satellite and airborne hyperspectral imaging, field portable mineral mapping systems and ground imaging systems while working for Anglo American. During this period he was a pioneer in the development of acquisition systems, data processing methods and geological interpretation of various types of spectral data. These include large scale airborne hyperspectral surveys, field portable spectral data on many different geological sample types, and hyperspectral imaging for geological rock and drill core samples.
Phil Harris | https://www.linkedin.com/in/phil-harris-190b9419/

Board Chairman - Richard L. Bedell was the President/CEO/Director of RenGold. Along with Ron Parratt, Richard was a co-founder and Executive Vice President and Director for AuEx. Richard has over 30 years of exploration experience including an adjunct faculty position in Exploration Geophysics at the Mackay School of Earth Sciences & Engineering. Previous work experience includes Homestake Mining Company as part of the Global Target Selection Team and managing the Technical Group for exploration and as an exploration geologist with BP Minerals and Rio Tinto. Richard is a recognized expert in remote sensing and geo-spatial technologies and was lead editor for a recent Society of Economic Geologists publication on remote-sensing. Richard is a Certified Professional Geologist (CPG) with the Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration. He is a graduate from The School of Natural Sciences & Mathematics, Hampshire College with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1979, earned a Master of Science in geology from the University of Toronto in Ontario in 1985, and a Master of Science in Remote Sensing and GIS from the University of London, United Kingdom in 1986. Richard is a Fellow with the Society of Economic Geologists, a member of the American Exploration and Mining Association, the Geologic Remote Sensing Group, and a member of the Geological Society of Nevada. Richard is also on the board of the Society of Economic Geologists Foundation.
Richard L. Bedell

Director - Mark Landers is also President/CEO/Director for SpecTIR LLC, Board Chairman Exogenesis Corp. and a Director at SpecIM Ltd. He has over 40 years of military and corporate management/leadership experience. He is responsible for the overall leadership, management and strategic planning for SpecTIR's hyperspectral, and advanced GIS technologies. For the past 4 years, Mark has provided management oversight for two SpecTIR spin off companies, TerraCore International Corp and Exogenesis Corp. He is directly involved with foreign and domestic Defense, Civil Agencies, Academia, and Private Sector to advance hyperspectral design, development and operational application. Mark led SpecTIR to become an internationally recognized leader in hyperspectral imagery collection and analysis. He directed the spin off of Terra Core International in June 2013 to apply SpecTIR’s hyperspectral science and operational understanding to the core imaging market . He is a retired US Navy CDR with over 24 years of experience in cryptologic, imaging, and hyperspectral operations. Education: BS, U.S. Naval Academy 1981; MS in Space Systems Operations, Naval Post Graduate School 1987 and ; MA, National Security Studies, Naval War College 2000.
Mark Landers | https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-landers-b571aa6/

Director and Chief Counsel - Samuel Stern is a recognized expert in the reform of legal infrastructure in countries moving to open-market economies. With his extensive experience advising governments and private sector entities in respect of legal infrastructure for oil and gas, power, mining, and water, Mr. Stern has served as counsel or advisor to the governments of over 40 countries. Mr. Stern has done significant work in privatization, particularly of utilities and power. Mr. Stern serves as an arbitrator, advocate, or expert in international commercial arbitrations. Mr. Stern served as Law Clerk to Chief Justice Earl Warren of the United States Supreme Court and was assistant counsel to a Presidential Commission. Before joining the firm, Mr. Stern was a senior partner (and member of the management committee) of Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering and of Dickstein Shapiro and counsel to Rogers & Wells (now Clifford Chance US LLP). He served as a Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School, an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown Law Center, lecturer at Yale, Cambridge, and Sussex Universities, and a board member of the International Law Institute.
Samuel Stern | https://www.linkedin.com/in/sam-stern-b628528/

Director and Technical Advisor - Michael Sears was born in Johannesburg and studied in Kenya and Australia, obtaining a Ph.D. in mathematics in 1972. He joined the University of the Witwatersrand the same year and remained at that university until 1997, during which time he headed departments in the mathematical sciences and served a term as dean of the Faculty of Science. In 1997 he joined Anglo American as Manager: Remote Sensing, and managed the satellite and airborne remote sensing needs of the company including the De Beers’ airborne hyperspectral scanner system. With Phil Harris and Neil Pendock, he was also involved in the development of the first hyperspectral core imager for Anglo Gold Ashanti. Michael retired from Anglo American in 2007 and returned to the University of the Witwatersrand in 2008 as a Visiting Professor in Computer Science. He has published widely in pure and applied mathematics, and was the principal investigator in a Centre for High Performance Flagship Project on Computational Imaging and Remote Sensing.
Michael Sears | https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-sears-b7065144/

Contact Info

We have the following offices

South Africa

+27 (0)11 675 7092

Physical Address:
712 Ribbon Avenue
Little Falls, 1724
Gauteng
South Africa

Postal Address:
P.O. Box 1948
Sunninghill, 2157
Johannesburg
South Africa

USA

+1 775 432 6800

Physical & Mailing Address:
5301 Longley Lane
Suite 157
Reno, Nevada 89511
USA

Core logging for the digital era.

Unrivalled Imaging Speeds - 1000m/day

sisuMobi

sisuChema

sisuROCK