2020–A Year of Exceptional Innumeracy

 I read an op-ed piece piece today by Malcolm Kendrick (RT News), a UK physician, who recounted an incredible metric-imperial conversion bust. In 1998, NASA’s Mars Climate Orbiter burned up in the Mars atmosphere because of a failure to convert thruster pounds of...

Correct Estimates of Development Tons and Grade

At first glance, reporting of grade and tons from underground face sampling seems like a no-brainer application of simple arithmetic in EXCEL, right?  Yup, no argument there…except, how come it is almost always done incorrectly due to faulty formulas, faulty...

The QP System — Who’s Being Served?

The idea for this blog comes fresh from reading a recently disclosed scam-nabulous 43-101 Technical Report for mineral resources.  Watching how the stock ticker started moving up two days before the public release, I asked myself, how is it that such a poorly...

Measured or Indicated?

It is pretty common to read 43-101 format technical reports on Mineral resources for new deposits that include significant Measured mineral resources. In my opinion, this classification of resources is often not merited. Let’s review the CIM definition: “A Measured...

In the Vein…

For those vein miners who might read this, let’s discuss a bit about drilling angles.  If any of us are asked if we want to drill across structure or down structure, most of us will always choose the former.  For those who wouldn’t, please take this...

What’s the drill hole spacing for your project?

What is your sample or drill hole spacing?  We are supposed to know in order to disclose exploration information and to estimate mineral resources, according to 43-101 and JORC guidelines.  JORC code states: “Geological evidence and knowledge required for the...