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!

Timestamps
1:27 Introducing Erik
8:50 "Drinking from a firehose" - working as a consultant
12:57 Our responsibilities as consultants
14:12 The regulatory regime, competence, morality, ethics, peer review
21:30 Overregulation? NI43-101 vs JORC
25:00 It's a reporting code, non-prescriptive
30:40 Classification, difference in application between jurisdictions, the "Inferred + Category", peer review
49:28 Education: what even is "best practice"?
56:58 Good books to read
1:03:15 Reporting length x grade in exploration drilling?