The world's next mines are already
above ground.
CORTERRA turns mining waste and industrial by-products into critical
metals – with AI that finds the value, designs the recovery process,
and proves it in the lab.
A supply problem the world can no longer ignore.
Demand for critical minerals is exploding, supply chains run through a
single country – and billions of tons of metal-bearing waste sit untouched.
$51.5B
4×
projected growth in demand for key battery and magnet metals by 2040.
91%
From waste to strategic resource.
Tailings, slags, battery scrap, industrial residues – most of it
is treated as a liability. We see inventory. Three ways in:
Lab Validation
Recommendations are only as good as their proof. We validate every process on your actual material and hand you measured results.
Process Development
From a standard sample analysis to a complete recovery process — designed by AI, stress-tested against physics, and priced end to end.
Resource Discovery
We screen your waste streams and sites, and tell you which ones hold real, recoverable value - before you spend a dollar on equipment.
Three steps. No drilling required.
03
You get a validated plan
02
AI designs the recovery
Our platform searches decades of chemistry for ways to recover what's valuable, simulates what will actually work, and calculates the economics.
01
Share a sample analysis
Send the lab report you already have – a standard elemental analysis of your material. No new equipment, no site visits to start.
Months of trial and error, compressed into weeks – and every recommendation arrives with the evidence behind it.
Every waste pile is a deposit
waiting for better chemistry.
Decades of mining and manufacturing left valuable metals behind –
because recovering them didn't pay at the time.
With today's prices, and the right process, it does.
Validated on real materials.
Recovery routes designed by the platform and confirmed end-to-end in university laboratories.
Battery waste
Battery scrap, fully mapped
Complete value mapping of shredded battery material — which metals are worth recovering, in what order, and what the economics look like.
Economics quantified
Mine tailings
Gold from tailings - cyanide-free
A recovery route for gold locked in old tailings, designed around a cleaner chemistry – no cyanide – with the environmental screening built in.
Cleaner route, validated
Soils & residues
Aluminum from clay-rich soil
An unconventional recovery route the platform proposed – including a step human experts would typically skip – confirmed step by step in the lab.
Validated end-to-end
VALUE RECOVERED · LAND RESTORED
Built by scientists
and operators.
Five co-founders spanning industrial chemistry, AI, and financial risk – with
25+ years of cleantech and mining operations at the helm.
Dr. Shenhav Malul
CFO
PhD actuarial science · CPA
Prof. Yitzhak Mastai
Chief Scientist
Professor of chemistry & nanotechnology, Bar-Ilan University
Idor Ovitz
CTO & CMO
AI & intelligent-systems architect
Prof. Rami Yosef
Chairman
Professor of actuarial science, Ben-Gurion University
Dr. Ronny Banker
CEO
PhD chemistry · MBA
25+ years in cleantech & mining
Sitting on a waste stream?
One conversation could turn it from a cost into an asset.