Stuart Smith Exploration Area Selection at the Global to Belt Scale: Evaluating multi-layer technica

Exploration Area Selection at the Global to Belt Scale: Evaluating multi-layer technical and non-technical risk to maximise exploration probabilities.
In calendar year 2021 global exploration expenditure was US$12.8 billion (Schodde, 2021) - have investors received a return that’s competitive with other sectors?
Exploration decision makers are risk managers (even if they don’t realise it) and their decisions are taken within the context of multilayered risk, both technical and non-technical. Assessing these risks (and spotting the opportunities) at the Global to Belt scale is the critical component of a greenfield exploration strategy.
This week's session with Stuart Smith begins with case studies of recent greenfield exploration successes and discusses them in terms of the concept of risk evaluation. The presentation concludes with a personal perspective on how greenfield exploration success probabilities can be maximised.