Perspectives
Editorial and analysis from THE CUT, exploring the judgement, knowledge, and decisions that shape the Mineral Resource industry.
Capital does not choose between evidence and narrative. It prices the credibility of the translation, and sometimes mistakes a favourable outcome for repeatable judgement. Are we putting "lipstick on a pig" or properly translating geological uncertainty and confidence to the market?
The original article was based on professional experience. So, what does the published evidence say? Australian and Canadian research shows that gaps in geological confidence, data verification and Reasonable Prospects can survive surprisingly far into the Mineral Resource process.
Years of good exploration work can still fall short when a project reaches Mineral Resource estimation. The question is not only whether you found mineralisation. It is whether the information supporting it is actually ready to become a Mineral Resource.
The CP sign-off is the most consequential act in Mineral Resource reporting. But the thinking behind it, the questions asked, the doubts weighed, the experience that shaped the opinion, almost never gets documented. It should.
