The NI 43-101report is the required first step in the multiyear approval process and is carried out only by registered geologists or geophysicists, in this case German firm ERCOSPLAN.

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Two highly effective self-promoters who love to emphasize their background as degreed geologists in order to attract media attention, or thousands of very smart professionals who quietly work their butts off behind the scenes to make sure their respective companies produce maximum returns to their shareholders?

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His approach relies on a statistical technique invented in 1943 by a British statistician, Ronald Fisher, and now widely used by geologists and ecologists to estimate the diversity of populations (of, say, fossils or beetles).

ECONOMIST: Statistics