Case Study: KoBold Metals accelerates continental-scale mineral exploration with Coiled

How KoBold Metals transformed mineral exploration

KoBold Metals, a mineral exploration company using AI, faced a significant computational challenge. Their process of analyzing vast continental-scale geospatial data to find battery metals required intensive calculations that quickly exceeded the capabilities of even the most powerful single machines. They needed a cloud solution that could integrate with their existing Python and Docker-based workflow to handle these massive workloads.

By implementing Coiled, KoBold gained seamless access to scalable cloud computing. This allowed them to process previously impossible, country-sized datasets for magnetic field analysis, hyperspectral imaging, and other complex tasks. The solution provided by Coiled transformed their operations, enabling faster data processing, rapid hypothesis testing, and more accurate, data-driven decisions on where to allocate exploration resources, ultimately giving them a competitive edge in discovering new mineral deposits.

KoBold Metals

Jerry Vinokurov

Senior Software Engineer