eGate, with its strategic partner Milky-Way, has launched LoderaIQ, its AI-powered, fully integrated mining-oversight platform. Operating locally as MineIQ, it covers the entire mining lifecycle, from exploration to the last truck out.
eGate is proud to announce the launch of LoderaIQ.
A national system for Nigeria’s mining sector
LoderaIQ is an AI-powered, fully integrated mining-oversight platform, now rolling out in Nigeria, one of Africa’s most ambitious mining digital transformations. In Nigeria it operates as MineIQ, delivered with our strategic partner Milky-Way. Powered by satellite imagery and AI, with drone survey now rolling out, it covers the entire mining lifecycle, from exploration to the last truck out.
One integrated system: drones, sensors and mission control
This is not off-the-shelf hardware. eGate is engineering deep integration across drones, sensors and mission control as a single system, now rolling out. Missions are planned end to end, route, waypoints, altitude and automated triggers set for each sensor, with live in-flight control designed to reroute the drone or adjust any onboard sensor on the fly, from camera to magnetometer to LiDAR.
Mission planning, end to end
Route, waypoints, altitude and per-sensor automated triggers set before the drone leaves the ground.
Live in-flight control
Designed to reroute the aircraft or retask any onboard sensor mid-mission, camera, magnetometer or LiDAR.
One stack, not many tools
Drones, sensors and mission control are engineered to work as one, so every mission feeds the same auditable record.
Everything Nigeria’s oversight now covers
Discovery
AI geological interpretation and satellite survey to identify mineral targets across the licence map, with aerial drone survey rolling out.
Continuous monitoring
Tracks pit expansion, machinery, excavation and stockpiles over time: change, not snapshots.
Legality & compliance
Detects illegal mining and checks activity against licence boundaries, automatically.
Live imagery & AI analysis
Drones are equipped to carry high-resolution cameras, magnetometers and LiDAR. The magnetometer is designed to map magnetic anomalies, structures and alteration that help target and vector toward mineralisation, and LiDAR to capture precise terrain and volumes, while on-site XRF already identifies mineral grade and soil composition for ground inspections.
Secure logistics
Postagy for Mining runs the full chain of custody. Trips are requested and approved by authorities, with royalties settled upfront, before a QR/RFID movement permit is issued and verified at every checkpoint, mine gate to road to export port, where an export permit closes the cycle. Drones are being deployed to provide aerial security monitoring of convoys in transit.
Unified oversight
Every stage feeds one platform, giving governments real-time visibility, protecting royalties and stopping diversion before it happens.
More than a platform launch, a step toward better-governed mining
An accountable, better-governed mining industry, in Nigeria and across Africa. Every gram discovered, moved and exported on one verifiable record.
With thanks to Milky-Way and our partners in Nigeria for making this milestone possible.