Image-based science.
Research into pore-scale reactive fluid flow and transport in critical-mineral ores, unconventional energy reservoirs, and engineered porous materials.
Inside the research
Multi-scale digital rock physics for the materials that power energy and critical-mineral systems.
We connect 3D imaging, image-based modeling, and AI-driven analysis to make mineral recovery measurable, predictable, and design-driven.
Digital Rock Labs is an R&D company building the imaging, modeling, and simulation tools that let scientists and operators see, measure, and predict how fluids move and react inside porous rocks, from the nanometer scale of a single pore to the meter scale of a heap leach pad or producing reservoir.
Research into pore-scale reactive fluid flow and transport in critical-mineral ores, unconventional energy reservoirs, and engineered porous materials.
Inside the researchTwo physics-based simulation platforms. DRL Studio is our flagship image analysis and 3D petrophysics engine, in active development. RockTwin is a multi-scale heap-and-reservoir simulator built on top of it, in early development.
Inside the platformsSample preparation, multi-modal correlative imaging, and 3D image-based modeling for clients in mining, oil & gas, and materials science.
See servicesExplore the unseen universe of rocks
Digital Rock Labs was established to address a specific technical gap: the efficiency of mineral extraction is governed by microstructural features that current industry methods cannot adequately characterize or model. Digital rock physics, an image-based computational framework combining multi-scale three-dimensional imaging with numerical modeling, provides the methodology to bridge this gap.
DRL builds on the industry's two-plus decades of digital rock physics development. Methodology originally developed for petroleum reservoir characterization now applies to the underserved but critically important context of critical mineral recovery.
Digital Rock Labs was founded by Dr. Jan Goral. More than ten years of multi-scale imaging, image-based modeling, and pore-scale simulation in digital rock physics, applied across unconventional oil and gas (shale) reservoir rocks, critical mineral rocks, and engineered porous materials.
Working on critical mineral, REE, or oil & gas recovery?
We welcome collaboration with industry, academic research groups, and national laboratories.