Mining Pit Sensor for Battery Tier-1 Mineral Provenance

COLD✧ v8Mining/ExtractiveGlobal16 Mar 2026

One-Liner

Sensor deployment at mine pit level to attest mineral provenance at point of extraction — killed as a fold into T2 (Indonesian Nickel smelter-gate product, where the same sensor stack is a Series B roadmap expansion, not a separate company).

AI Thinking Process

T2 (smelter-gate sensor) generalized to mine-pit level: attest mineral provenance at extraction point rather than smelter intake.

This is T2 re-shaped. Same sensor stack, different deployment node. Mine-pit deployment is a Series B expansion for T2, not a separate company. Folded into T2 roadmap.

Not a hard kill — folded into T2. No separate extraction needed.

Kill Reason

Not a genuine kill — folded into T2 as a later-stage product extension. The mine-pit deployment is the same sensor logic as the smelter-gate product in T2 but with a different buyer (mining auditor vs battery OEM). If T2 is built, mine-pit becomes a natural product-line extension, not a standalone company.

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