• Date: 25 June 2025
• Time 5pm to 7pm AWST
•  Location: Mayfair Lane Pub, 72 Outram St, West Perth WA 6005

The Use and Abuse of Metal Equivalents

In 2019, Geologists Steve Rose and Gerry Fahey, then working at consultancy CSA Global, authored a paper on the use of Metal Equivalents in public announcements.

Metal Equivalents provide a useful and concise indication of the value of mineralisation that contains more than one valuable metal or minerals. With the increasing importance of exotic metals in daily use, as critical or energy transition metals, usage of equivalence can become problematic, and in some cases misleading.

Steve and Gerry have offered to revisit their paper, including covering calculation, shortcomings, and reporting requirements under JORC 2012.

We encourage your attendance at the private dining room at the Mayfair pub, 25 June 5pm and look forward to hearing your experiences and inputs to this “valuable” topic.

The session will feed into a formal Member Guide, helping shape shared principles for reporting exploration results.

Please come prepared to contribute: this is not just a talk, but a collaborative session to lift the bar on public reporting.