Measured #1- Erik Ronald

Measured is RSC’s brand-new podcast series, with RSC Managing Director and Principal Consultant René Sterk conversing with a range of industry personalities. Expect a range of talking points, many with a technical theme, but also some of our industry friends sharing anecdotes about their career in the mineral exploration and mining sector and thoughts on some of the issues the industry faces.What is it like working as a consultant? Listen to my conversation with Erik Ronald, principal consultant with SRK, where we cover things like: our responsibilities as consultants, the current regulatory regime and the discussions around competence, differences in how we classify mineral resources, communicating risks in resource models, how to learn resource estimation, learning from mistakes, and we even have a sneaky stab at Mo Shrivastava’s recent posts on publicly reporting grade x width. Hope you enjoy!Timestamps1:27 Introducing Erik8:50 "Drinking from a firehose" - working as a consultant12:57 Our responsibilities as consultants14:12 The regulatory regime, competence, morality, ethics, peer review21:30 Overregulation? NI43-101 vs JORC25:00 It's a reporting code, non-prescriptive30:40 Classification, difference in application between jurisdictions, the "Inferred + Category", peer review49:28 Education: what even is "best practice"?56:58 Good books to read1:03:15 Reporting length x grade in exploration drilling?Measured is RSC’s podcast series, with RSC Managing Director and Principal Consultant René Sterk conversing with a range of industry personalities. Expect a range of talking points, many with a technical theme, but also some of our industry friends sharing anecdotes about their career in the mineral exploration and mining sector and thoughts on some of the issues the industry faces. Please enjoy, and don't forget to follow RSC on all our social media platforms!YouTube: @rscyoutubeLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/rsc-mme-ltd Instagram: rsc_gram TikTok: rsc_tiktok #measuredpodcast