The need for international study standards »

International Mining (www.im-mining.com) is fostering debate over the need for international study standards. What do scoping study, preliminary economic assessment, prefeasibility, feasibility and other studies really mean? Does ‘bankable’ or ‘definitive’ mean anything? In July, Niall Weatherstone of Rio Tinto (Rio Tinto and Chairman of the Committee for Mineral Reserves International Reporting Standards) wrote the [...]