Purple Rock Inc. is privately held and based in beautiful Victoria, BC. Since 2006, the company has worked with more than half of the government geological surveys across Canada, as well as a number of non-government organizations and private mining and exploration companies. We have experience working with documents and data from across North America.

Nicole Barlow, P.Geo., founded the company in 2006. Throughout its history, Purple Rock has seen priority shifts in mineral exploration and technological evolution in data and document management. Purple Rock Inc. is embracing the potential to use old data to drive the future of geoscience, especially to fuel the green economy.

From 2006 to 2011, the company operated under the name Purple Rock Editing. James Barlow, P.Eng., joined the company as a director in 2011.

Purple Rock Inc. is a registered firm with Engineers and Geoscientists BC, and is committed to upholding the EGBC Code of Ethics. As geoscientists, our work directly impacts the places and communities that we work with, and maintaining environmentally and socially ethical practices is key to sustainable geoscience. The climate crisis poses an existential threat to humanity, and decarbonization requires vast quantities of critical minerals, which must be ethically mined. Using historical geoscience data can reduce the carbon footprint of mineral exploration and mining through better targeting and can prevent the repetition of previous work.

Our people are our biggest asset, and Purple Rock Inc. is committed to supporting our employees and maintaining a diverse and equitable workplace where everyone contributes a unique and valuable perspective to the challenge at hand. We hire exceptional people from all backgrounds. With our head office in Victoria, British Columbia, we use the technological advantages of remote work to engage staff from across Canada. This allows us to employ talented individuals no matter where they are located.