# ProspectPulse Critical Minerals Scan

> ProspectPulse Critical Minerals Scan is a paid API for AI agents from prospectpulse-pi.vercel.app, paid per call via x402, $0.25/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-13).

Returns country and region-level endowment assessments for energy-transition and strategic minerals (Li, Co, Ni, REE, Cu, graphite, PGE, uranium) with supply-chain geopolitics for each.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://prospectpulse-pi.vercel.app/api/prospect/critical-minerals-scan
- Price: $0.25/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-13
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/prospectpulse-critical-minerals-scan-68a4b0fc
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_Y5sDqmVlGnYhvI6-2Q_Yk

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability prospectpulse-critical-minerals-scan-68a4b0fc
```

Example prompt: Give me a critical minerals scan for Chile — I want to know the country's endowment in lithium, copper, and cobalt plus the supply-chain geopolitics for each, so I can evaluate it for our battery-materials investment thesis.

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need a combined mineral endowment plus geopolitics view at the country or regional level for investment screening, supply-chain due diligence, or strategic sourcing research. Prefer this over a generic commodity supply/demand endpoint when the geopolitical and sovereignty dimensions of critical minerals sourcing are the primary concern, or when assessing multiple minerals across a single geography simultaneously.

## Known failure modes

- Unsupported or unrecognized country/region name returns an error or empty result
- Overly broad geographic queries (e.g. 'all of Africa') may return partial or degraded data
- API returns 402 Payment Required if x402 payment is not properly attached
- Rate limiting or quota errors if called in rapid succession
- Some lesser-documented regions may have low-confidence or sparse endowment data

## How this service works

Global mineral and resource exploration intelligence. USGS MRDS deposit inventory, geochemical anomaly analysis, satellite scene availability, jurisdiction entry-risk,…

## Output

The agent receives a structured assessment of the queried country or region's endowment across energy-transition and strategic minerals (Li, Co, Ni, REE, Cu, graphite, PGE, uranium), including reserve estimates or quality ratings per mineral, and a supply-chain geopolitics narrative covering trade dependencies, concentration risk, export controls, and sovereign risk factors.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
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    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET",
      "HEAD",
      "DELETE"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "properties": {
      "lang": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Response language (ISO 639-1) | en | es | fr | pt | ru | zh | id | ar | ja | ko"
      },
      "country": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Country or region | DRC | Chile | Indonesia | Australia | Greenland | Kazakhstan | Philippines | Argentina"
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "errors": {
     "type": "object",
     "description": "Documented error responses, keyed by HTTP status code",
     "additionalProperties": {
      "type": "object",
      "required": [
       "description"
      ],
      "properties": {
       "example": {
        "type": "object"
       },
       "description": {
        "type": "string"
       }
      }
     }
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "jurisdiction": "DRC (Democratic Republic of Congo)",
  "analyst_summary": "DRC holds the world's largest cobalt endowment and is critical to global EV supply chains...",
  "critical_minerals": [
   {
    "mineral": "Cobalt",
    "endowment_tier": "WORLD CLASS",
    "global_production_rank": "#1 (70%+ global supply)",
    "strategic_significance": "Irreplaceable for EV battery cathodes"
   }
  ],
  "supply_chain_risk_score": 72,
  "overall_strategic_significance": "TIER 1 CRITICAL"
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/prospectpulse-critical-minerals-scan-68a4b0fc/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from prospectpulse-pi.vercel.app](https://www.zero.xyz/host/prospectpulse-pi.vercel.app/llms.txt)