🌍 INTERNATIONAL EXPEDITION · ON HOLD
Real mine. Real specimens. Real value.
On hold for now — local mine-area trips come first. Long-distance trips cost far more per specimen and need permission, export/customs review, documented chain of custody, and a verified budget before a single dollar is accepted. The ground we already access produces more material, faster, for less. No location, family connection, or shipment route is disclosed here.
Local ground beats long-haul right now
At least five more trips to local mineral ground are planned, run one at a time as funding lands. We already know the access and the material there, so almost every dollar buys finds instead of logistics. This page stays up as the plan of record for when the local ground has been worked through properly.
⛏️ See the live mission board →Estimate only · no cap
Costs may include travel, lodging, tools, ground transport, legal/export review, customs, shipping, safety equipment, and specimen acquisition. These are estimates only; a mission portal should show the live target, raised amount, receipts, and remaining needs.
Specimens you can own
Peru is rich in:
- 🪨 Smoky quartz — high-grade, deep color
- 💜 Amethyst — geode specimens, cathedral formations
- 💎 Beryl — aquamarine, heliodor, morganite
- ✨ Pyrite — perfect cubes, museum grade
- 🌋 Volcanic minerals — obsidian, sulfur, sulfurite
- 🟡 Pyrite-included quartz — rare collector pieces
Potential converted records would use photos, measured weight, provisional composition, and chain-of-custody fields. Radiological readings remain pending until measured. Physical redemption depends on legal and shipping review.
US gets physical, international gets NFT
Specimens come back from Peru through customs into the US treasury. Then:
- US holders claim physical via the specimen store (USPS Pub 52 / DOT 49 CFR §173.421 compliant shipping)
- International holders claim the onchain NFT cert with full ownership — value is global, sellable on OpenSea or any marketplace
- Treasury holds the remaining specimens for the next mission / event / sale
The international NFT is a real asset certificate — provenance + weight + Geiger data all onchain. Anyone worldwide can buy, sell, trade.
Every specimen, every step, onchain
The SpecimenCertificate.sol contract stores:
- 📸 Photo proof (IPFS) at dig site
- 📍 Origin region (sensitive coordinates remain private)
- ⚖️ Weight (grams, verified scale)
- ☢️ Geiger reading (CPM, uSv)
- 📋 Customs form (US-side entry)
- 🏦 Treasury custody (Ledger signature)
Once a converted certificate is in a holder's wallet, its published revision history remains onchain. Sensitive personal, family, and exact-location details stay private.
🔬 See verification details →No RWAs, no securities, no promises
This is NOT an investment. There is no:
- Promise of return or yield on APE
- Securities offering (US or international)
- RWA (real-world asset) instrument — this is a real specimen sale, not a financial product
- Guarantee of mine value, mineral quantity, or future missions
You buy a spec. You get a spec. That's it.
Peru legal compliance: specimens exported under general mineral export permits. No protected species, no archaeological artifacts, no conflict minerals.
When this happens
The Peru mission is a future concept, not funded or scheduled. Timeline:
- Now — finalize Ape testnet rehearsal, terms, and Ledger-controlled deployment plan
- Then — open a transparent mission portal with no artificial budget cap and a published minimum estimate
- Before travel — complete permission, export, customs, safety, and shipping review
- After recovery — catalog, measure, photograph, and mint only verified specimen records