The purpose of the work is to develop a methodology for mapping relief energy surfaces to identify and evaluate the ore deposits. The area of the research is the Magadan oblast. A reliable way to identify geological and tectonic structures is the morphometric method of V. P. Filosofov, through creating base and vertex surfaces, followed by obtaining relief energy with the difference between the first and last. At the same time, the basic surfaces were created by detecting the intersection points of the relief contours with the lines of watercourses (thalwegs) of the same order flows, and when constructing vertex surfaces, the algorithm is identical to the method of creating the basic ones; the difference was in using the ridges watersheds intersections with the contours of the relief. ArcGIS v. 10.8 was used for the studies using input data in the form of digital terrain models Copernicus in the form of rasters. As the main result we can consider cartographic diagrams of raster images of relief energies that estimate the thickness of surface processes, which is of great theoretical and practical importance for studying the evolution of the landscape, monitoring territories in the view of engineering and agricultural problems solutions, as well as studying the hydrological regime of the area. In the future, this makes it possible to classify lands with different indicators of relief energy, therefore, a directly proportional dependence is observed, namely, the more significant it is, the more pronounced exogenous activity will be, contributing to exploring previously unknown mineral resources