The article presents the problem of detecting an earth layer, containing minerals, describes the recognition algorithms for computing devices of a portable type, designed to help the exploration geologist. These devices would be useful to the exploration geologist at the time of determining the direction of the ridge containing minerals. To solve the problem of finding minerals, it is proposed to use a universal heterogeneous multiprocessing computing platform (MСP), developed in M. A. Kartsev Computing System Research and Development Institute intended for high‑speed processing of large‑scale data when solving a wide range of hydroacoustics, radar, geophysics and mineral exploration tasks.