A fresh perspective on what your exploration portfolio holds. Review your opportunities, challenge the assumptions, and bring clarity to your next decision.
A broader review across multiple projects or tenements to determine where exploration expenditure is most likely to create value.
Focus: Comparative prospectivity, project ranking, exploration maturity, technical risk and allocation of exploration capital.
Typical deliverables: Project ranking matrix, key value drivers, principal technical risks and recommended priorities.
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Target Generation & Re-Targeting Review
A deeper review aimed specifically at identifying new targets or reassessing areas that may have been discounted by previous exploration models.
Focus: Structural controls, mineral-system architecture, alternative geological interpretations, untested target positions and integration of legacy datasets.
Typical deliverables: New target concepts, ranked target areas, supporting rationale and recommendations for follow-up work.
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Pre-Drill Target Validation
An independent technical check before committing to drilling.
Focus: Whether the proposed drill target is supported by the available datasets, whether the geometry is appropriate, and whether alternative drill positions may provide greater value.
Typical deliverables: Target validation, drill-priority recommendations, key uncertainties and suggested modifications where appropriate.
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Technical Due Diligence / Acquisition Review
Independent review of an exploration project being considered for acquisition, joint venture, farm-in or investment.
Focus: Geological upside, quality of existing targets, data reliability, exploration maturity, technical risks and potential hidden value.
Typical deliverables: Concise technical opinion, key strengths and weaknesses, principal risks, value-creation opportunities and priority questions for management.
Target mineral potential — Australia
In-depth, customised reviews
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Structural & Mineral-System Review
A specialist review focused on the geological architecture controlling mineralisation.
Focus: Structural framework, fluid and magma pathways, timing relationships, deformation history, mineralisation controls and implications for targeting.
A higher-level review of whether the current exploration program is asking the right geological questions.
Focus: Exploration philosophy, targeting logic, sequencing of work programs, technical assumptions and whether expenditure is aligned with the highest-value opportunities.
Typical deliverables: Strategic recommendations, exploration priorities, decision points and suggestions for improving the effectiveness of future exploration expenditure.
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Investor / Board Technical Review
An independent technical assessment prepared for management, boards or investors who require a concise view of a project's exploration potential.
Focus: Technical credibility, key value drivers, major uncertainties, exploration upside and the significance of upcoming work programs.
Typical deliverables: Executive-level technical summary, key risks and opportunities, and presentation-ready material if required.
Structural block model
The objective across all review options is not to replace the existing technical team, but to provide an independent senior-level second opinion aimed at identifying untapped exploration value, challenging established assumptions and improving the effectiveness of the next exploration dollar spent.
Simon Richards is a senior exploration geoscientist and minerals industry specialist with more than 30 years of experience spanning mineral exploration, structural geology, mineral systems, geodynamics, government geoscience, academia, consulting, technology development and executive leadership.
