About
Built in Nova Scotia, by people who grew up on the tailings piles.
Canada Prospector is made by a small team from Nova Scotia. Before it was an app, it was a habit: weekends spent picking through the old workings of the province's gold districts, long before any of us knew the word "assessment".
Made in Nova Scotia, Canada
Where it started
Waverley and Renfrew are two of Nova Scotia's old gold districts, opened in the 1860s and picked over by every generation since. We were the kids on the tailings piles, turning over quartz looking for the colour, learning which dumps were worth a Saturday and which ones the old-timers had already cleaned out. Nobody told us it was geology. It was just what you did.
That never went away. It turned into an interest in how the ground was put together, why the gold sat where it sat, who had held the claims before us, and what it would actually take to hold one ourselves.
Why we built it
When we finally went looking for ground of our own, the tools were the problem. The information is out there, and most of it is public, but it is scattered: tenure in the registry, geology in a viewer built years ago, old reports and survey maps in archives, and whatever you found last season in a notebook in the truck. The viewers were made for a desk and a mouse. On a phone they barely work, and where the road ends and the signal drops, they do not work at all.
What we wanted was to bring the research with us. The claim map, the geology, the old workings, our own pins and notes, all in a pocket at the outcrop with no signal. And then the things no viewer was ever going to do: tell us when ground was about to open, remind us before a claim expired, do the staking maths in the registry's own format, keep the assessment work straight. A phone in the field was the obvious answer, and nobody had built it. So we did. First for Nova Scotia, then Ontario, then British Columbia, each with its own registry, its own staking rules and its own way of counting assessment work, because a prospector in Timmins should never be told to file on NovaROC.
What a viewer was never going to do
Having the research in your pocket is half of it. The other half is the things a desk-bound viewer cannot do at all:
- A push when ground opensInside an area you are watching, whether or not you have opened the app that week.
- A reminder before a claim expiresAt 90, 30, 7 and 1 day, for the claims you actually care about.
- The whole province in your pocketEvery data layer with no signal, because the good ground is never where the cell service is.
- Your own notes, where you need themPins, samples and saved ground, reachable at the outcrop rather than in a filing cabinet at home.
- Tap anywhere and know what is under your bootsThe claim, the bedrock, the nearest fault, the old workings, the geochemistry, in one sheet.
- The staking maths, doneCells picked under the right province's rules, priced, and read off in the registry's own format.
- Assessment work against the real rulesCredits tracked term by term, and the government forms filled in for you.
None of that replaces the registry. The registry is the record and always will be, and the app says so on every screen that matters. What the app does is make the record usable where the work happens.
Who it is for
Anyone who prospects. Weekend panners. Retired geologists. Small exploration outfits with two trucks and a drill contractor on speed dial. And the kid on the tailings pile who does not yet know this is a thing you can do for a living.
The free app is not a demo. The map, every data layer, search and tapping anywhere are free, and they will stay free. Pro is for the work that comes after you find something: alerts, targets, the staking calculator, the work tracker. Pro pays for the servers, the nightly data pipeline and the time it takes to keep three provinces current. If you never subscribe and the app still gets you to good ground, that is a success by the only measure we care about: genuine use, in the field.
Canadian, and independent
Made in Nova Scotia. Built on public data published by Canadian provinces, priced in Canadian dollars, and answered from a Canadian inbox. Auriven Labs is an independent company. We are not affiliated with, endorsed by or funded by any provincial government or registry, and nothing in the app is legal advice. Confirm with the registry before you file. We would say that even if we did not have to.
Get in touch
We read every message and usually answer within a business day. Bug reports, feature ideas, a data layer you wish existed, or the province you want next: support@canadaprospector.ca.