Minerax Consulting was a mining consulting company that operated during the last years of the Galactic Republic as well as the Age of the Empire. In 23 BBY, the industrialist Count Denetrius Vidian bought a secret stake in Minerax Consulting and used it to churn out reports which wiped out surface mining on Gorse and several worlds. These mining operations had been run by companies which had failed his inspection when Vidian was still known as Lemuel Tharsa, a lowly mining inspector. Vidian's actions bankrupted the Interstellar Thorilide Guild and benefited the interests of the comet-chaser industry, which he mostly controlled.