Exploration & investment advisory
Independent technical review of ground you are considering — written for the person signing the cheque, not the person logging the core.
Technical due diligenceProject reviewIndependent opinion
Independent technical review of ground you are considering — written for the person signing the cheque, not the person logging the core.
Most projects presented to investors are presented by people who need them to succeed. Our job is to read the same material without that need, and to tell you which parts of the story are supported by data and which parts are supported by enthusiasm.
The output is short. A technical due diligence report from us is typically fifteen to thirty pages, with the reasoning in the body and the raw material appended, because a document written to be read by a decision-maker has to be readable in one sitting.
We do not take a success fee, a finder's fee, or an interest in the projects we review. It is the only arrangement under which the opinion is worth anything.
The list is deliberately unglamorous. Most projects fail on the items nobody wanted to check.
Short, because a due diligence that takes three months has usually cost you the opportunity it was meant to protect.
Everything the vendor has provided, plus a list of what is missing. The gaps are often the finding.
Cadastre, imagery and regional data checked against the vendor's account, not through it.
Where the decision justifies it. A single day on the ground routinely changes the reading of a data room.
A written report with a clear recommendation and the conditions under which it would change.
Stated here so that the first conversation can be about the work rather than about how we charge for it.
| Item | Detail |
|---|---|
| Basis | Fixed fee, agreed before work starts |
| Independence | No success fee, no finder's fee, no interest taken in reviewed projects |
| Typical duration | Two to four weeks including a site visit |
| Output | Fifteen to thirty page written opinion with appendices |
| Confidentiality | Non-disclosure signed with all parties before the data room opens |
| Follow-on | If you proceed, our consultancy or drilling crews can execute — quoted separately and at your option |
Only with your written instruction, and anything they tell us goes into the report as something they told us rather than something we verified.
For desk-based review, yes, across the region. For a site visit we will be honest about where our local knowledge stops being an advantage.
That is entirely your decision and it does not affect the engagement. The report states what it states; what you do with it is a commercial judgement we are not being paid to make.
Yes. Named, dated and signed, with the qualifications of the people who did the work listed.
Send what you have been shown. We will tell you what a review would cost, how long it would take, and whether there is anything in the material that makes the question easy to answer.