About Kenex

Kenex uses spatial data, GIS (Geographic Information Systems) and predictive modelling to create business opportunities and improved management for our clients.  Our area of expertise is positioned at the high end of the 'data  knowledge transfer' value chain.  This is where we make the connection between data, information, processes, and the ideas of people, to deliver innovative knowledge-based business solutions.  We use predictive modelling techniques to ascertain the highest quality sites for mineral exploration, as well as other land-based resource development such as orchard farming and vineyard development.  We provide high 'value-added' products, backed up by consulting, support and management services.

Things are changing in the world of data and we realise it is becoming a more freely available commodity and knowledge will become the competitive advantage.  Many organisations suffer from data overload and Kenex facilitates the transfer of spatial data to knowledge which allows organisations to manage more effectively.

Kenex is a Wellington-based company which was set up in 2003 to provide GIS and exploration services for the exploration and mining industries in Australia and New Zealand.  We are a group of highly motivated research professionals who have more than 50 years of combined experience and knowledge in exploration and mining, both abroad, including the Solomon Islands, Australia and Africa, and in New Zealand.  Kenex is known as a highly innovative company with proven record of delivering projects on time and within budget.

Kenex has now established three important partnerships with American and Australian based organisations to compliment our skills. We have formed a relationship with James Cook University through the pmdCRC, which gives us access to new tools and techniques that are relevant to the exploration industry.  We also have access to specialist skills in geophysical and structural interpretation through Dr Greg Partington’s position as a research associate at the University.  We have formed a partnership with Encom, who are a major geophysical consultancy and developer of Discover in Australia.  Kenex is a reseller of Encom products in New Zealand, and through this relationship have access to significant data management tools and geophysical consultancy services.  We have also formed an important relationship with the developers of prospectivity modelling techniques for the minerals industry in Canada and the US.  We have gained access to new modelling tools and techniques through the sponsorship of the research work of Dr Garry Raines and Dr Graham Bonham-Carter.  Greg Partingtion has averaged publishing a research paper a year in peer-reviewed geoscience journals since gaining his PhD in 1984.  Your can read some of Greg's papers here in our publications section.

Kenex develops new modelling products and business cases based on various market forces - some of our new projects include:

• 3D mineral potential modelling
• Gold mineralisation in South Africa and Namibia
• New Zealand lifestyle block development
• Vineyard development in Hawke's Bay
• Targeting epithermal gold in central Queensland
• Cu-Au in Northern Australia
• Mesothermal gold in Western Australia. 

Kenex, from Ken, Scottish, derived form the German 'Kennen' - to know, and Ex for exploration, reflecting the directors' earth science, research and business backgrounds.

Please feel free to contact us if you are interested in these projects, or if you have other ideas for a modelling project that could help your business.

Click here to download the Kenex Knowledge Systems company CV (.PDF).  If you're interested in working for Kenex check out our advertised job positions.

Kenex ski trip to Mt Ruapehu in August 2008.  From left: Sally, Andrew, Elisa, Henry, Liz, and Katie.