Tellus Aurum is a Houston-based gold exploration and mining company holding acreage across Nevada and Arizona. We apply innovative solutions to reduce the cost of extracting gold — so more of every deposit becomes economic.
Every dollar taken out of the cost per ounce converts marginal rock into ore. We treat extraction cost as the primary engineering problem — not an afterthought once a resource is defined.
Nevada and Arizona combine world-class gold geology with established mining law, skilled labour, infrastructure and permitting frameworks that a disciplined operator can plan around.
Data-led targeting, sensor-based sorting and modular processing let a lean team run a tighter capital cycle than the conventional exploration-to-production playbook allows.
"We are not looking for the richest rock. We are looking for the rock we can mine for less."
— The Tellus Aurum approach
Two of the most productive and best-understood gold jurisdictions in the world — held as contiguous claim blocks and explored on a single, disciplined technical standard.
Basin-and-Range terrain hosting the sediment-hosted and epithermal gold systems that made Nevada the highest-producing gold state in the United States.
Ground along Arizona's richly mineralised belts, where gold occurs both in its own right and alongside the state's long-established base-metal districts.
We hold and evaluate claim blocks across both states, prioritising ground where geology, access and permitting line up — the three things that decide whether a discovery ever becomes a mine.
The full value chain, run to one standard: disciplined sampling, honest geology, and a processing route chosen for the deposit in front of us.
Each stage has a defined technical and economic test. Ground that fails one does not advance to the next — which is how capital stays pointed at the projects that will pay.
Regional geology, historic data, geophysics and geochemistry are compiled into ranked targets before any ground is staked.
Claims are staked or acquired, access and surface rights secured, and the permitting pathway mapped from day one.
Phased drill programmes with rigorous QA/QC, independent assay, and full chain of custody on every sample.
Assays are built into a 3D block model, and grade shells are stress-tested against realistic mining and processing costs.
Mine plan, sorting, processing route and power are optimised together — the stage where the cost per ounce is actually decided.
Build, commission and operate — with reconciliation back to the model and continuous optimisation through mine life.
Using less rock, less water and less energy per ounce is simultaneously the cheapest way and the cleanest way to mine. We do not treat them as competing objectives.
Small disturbance footprints, progressive rehabilitation, and closure designed into the mine plan rather than bolted on at the end.
Arid-region operations demand it: closed-circuit water use, high recycle rates, and monitoring against agreed baselines.
Local hiring and local supply where we operate, with early and continuing engagement with landowners and neighbouring communities.
Federal, state and county obligations tracked as a live register — permits, reporting and bonding kept current at every stage.