Best Mining Companies in Texas, United States
The 57 best Mining companies in Texas, United States in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: NRP.
Our analysis of 100 Mining companies
$17.0b in tracked funding; 82% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2025.
Ranked: Best Mining companies in Texas
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Employees | Founded | Founder | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Altillion Technology innovator developing proprietary mineral extraction process from brine | — | — | — | 2023 | Jay Keener Co-Founder & CEO | 9 patents Hydrometallurgical extraction and recovery of elements from aqueous solutions | — |
| 2 | Aquamatrix Provider of mining services | — | — | 32 | 1999 | — | — | — |
| 3 | Brigham Minerals Offers minerals buying and selling services | — | — | 44 | 2012 | Rob Roosa CEO | — | — |
| 4 | cadre Cadre Services is a major supplier of API/ISO-quality Premium Hickory® Sand to the oil and gas industry | — | — | 100 | 2006 | — | 3 patents User interface rendering and dynamic document layout for digital content displays | — |
| 5 | Challengerdrilling Provider of drilling services | — | — | 37 | 1998 | — | — | — |
| 6 | dynaresource DynaResource is a junior resource company that offers ethical business practices. | — | — | 200 | 1937 | K Diepholz CEO | — | — |
| 7 | Easterngeophysics Provider of geophysical surveys utilizing surface and borehole time domain electromagnetics | — | — | — | 2006 | — | — | — |
| 8 | EHS Insight EHS & ESG software for safety, compliance, and risk management | — | — | 8 | 2009 | — | — | 1 job opening · 2 launchs · 1 partnership |
Top 12 Mining companies in Texas
#1
Public · Corpus Christi, Texas · founded 2000$5.8Mraised▾
Developer of silver-rich precious metal deposits. This company acquires and develops predominantly silver-rich, precious metal deposits. It has secured royalty streams from past projects, providing sustaining and development capital. The company focuses on high-grade silver exploration and exploitation, aiming for organic growth and reduced reliance on capital markets. A recent acquisition positions the company in a prolific mining district known for low capital expenditure start-ups.
- Feb 2026Post IPO$2.2M
- Sep 2025Post IPO$1.6M
- Sep 2025Post IPO$938.2K
- Jul 2023Post IPO$79.4K
#2
Series B · San Antonio, Texas · founded 2022$19Mraised▾
Developer of advanced mineral processing and metal extraction technologies. These technologies improve the efficiency of extracting metals from ore, resulting in higher recovery rates and reduced waste. The focus is on sustainable and environmentally responsible resource recovery, optimizing the quality and value of extracted resources through advanced processing techniques. Solutions also address the safe management and repurposing of mining waste, minimizing hazardous byproducts. The company's proprietary extraction technology is designed to unlock previously untapped resources and improve efficiency in mineral processing.
- Apr 2025Series B$19M
#3
Seed · Houston, Texas · founded 2013 · 32 employees$5.4Mraised▾
Manufacturer of seismic recording technologies. It designs and manufactures wireless systems that facilitate data collection without wired setups, supporting field operations. Its technology solutions enhance seismic operations, and earth imaging quality for monitoring the earths subsurface. It supports the quality of seismic data collection, catering to industries such as oil and gas exploration, mining, and environmental assessments.
- May 2025Seed$516K
- May 2025Conventional Debt$950K
- Oct 2018Seed$3.2M
- Oct 2015Seed$725K
#4
Series A · Houston, Texas · founded 2017$9.4Mraised▾
Provider of mineral exploration and development services
- Sep 2024Series A$7.8M
- Sep 2023Seed$1.5M
#5
Series A · San Antonio, Texas · founded 2022 · 10 employees$9.6Mraised▾
Biotechnology company offering mineral extraction using microbes. The biological process includes crushing and grinding of minerals and combining them with enzymes to degrade materials to extract, separate, and recover metals, including lithium and other elements. The product modules include a talk system that organizes a suitable environment for metals for sustainable yield production.
- Jul 2024Grant (prize money)$247.9K
- Dec 2023Series A$9.6M
- 2022Seed—
#6
Public · Houston, Texas · founded 2002 · 54 employees$350Mraised▾
Mineral exploration and development company focused on natural resources
- Oct 2014Conventional Debt$125M
- Jun 2011Conventional Debt$50M
- Dec 2003Post IPO—
- Sep 2003Conventional Debt$50M
#7
Series C · Austin, Texas · founded 2020 · 12 employees$110.9Mraised▾
Provider of mining services
- May 2021Series C$23M
- Mar 2021Series C$26.2M
- Feb 2021Series C$11.2M
- Jan 2021Series C$14.3M
#8
Seed · Houston, Texas · founded 2016 · 6 employees$300Mraised▾
Mineral acquisition company focused on purchasing mineral interests and overriding royalties.
- Feb 2018PE—
- Mar 2017PE$300M
- 2016Seed—
#9
Public · Houston, Texas · founded 1981 · 873 employees$17.1Mraised▾
Provider of GIS datasets of energy industry. It leverages artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques to provide a search engine for information on onshore and offshore seismic data, marine depth imaging, land imaging, reservoir analysis, well data, insights for hydrocarbon exploration and renewable energy, and more. It collects, evaluates, and markets subsurface terrain seismic and geophysical data in order to evaluate oil and gas formations for drilling operations. It also provides marine gravity, magnetics, and aeromagnetic database. It caters to energy sectors such as wind, solar, geothermal, CCS, and oil and gas.
- Aug 2023Series A$3.2M
- Dec 2019Series A$5.6M
- Aug 2018Series A$8.3M
#10
Series A · Houston, Texas$5.3Mraised▾
Provider of mineral extraction services
#11
Public · Houston, Texas · founded 2010 · 11 employees$30.9Mraised▾
Mining & exploration company focused on gold, copper and precious metals
- Apr 2022Post IPO$20M
- Jun 2021Post IPO$10.9M
#12
Seed · Houston, Texas · founded 2020 · 10 employees$2Mraised▾
Provider of material mining, aggregation, and warehouse services
Funding & investor landscape
Notable founders
Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
Share of Mining coverage by sub-theme.
Regulatory-risk over time rising
Funding & growth over time
funding rising · growth rising
How research on Mining Technology is moving in the United States
A read on the academic research around Mining Technology — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 278 United States-affiliated papers.
- Northeastern University42
- Colorado School of Mines18
- United States Geological Survey10
- Missouri University of Science and Technology8
- Weatherford College7
- Mineral processing2→10
- Beneficiation4→14
- Mineral processing24→31
- Grinding3→8
- Mineral7→12
- Tailings4→8
- Leaching (pedology)1→5
- Mineral3→5
Where mining tech is researched across United States
Location clusters by institution affiliation — each city's volume, stance tone, and a quick read on its hot topic, what's advancing, the opening opportunity, and the main concern.
Who's filing mining tech patents in the United States
United States mining tech patent filing is accelerating — 53 filings from 63 assignees (2016–2025), led by Millennium Inorganic CHEM, Cidra Corporate Services, Superior Mineral Resources; annual filings 7→8.
- Millennium Inorganic CHEM15
- Cidra Corporate Services15
- Superior Mineral Resources14
- Ecolab USA10
- DU PONT10
- ASH Grove Cement9
- Qualcomm8
- Cadence Environmental Energy8
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