Field Corrections Programme

Crediting practitioners who refine our methodology, corrections, and intelligence-grade dossiers.

What this programme is

Afrimintel is a small platform with a published methodology, a versioned audit log, and a three-state Quality Standard. We get things wrong. The Field Corrections programme exists because practitioners with on-the-ground expertise — geologists who have worked the ground, project advisors who have read the reserves studies, consultants who have run the technical reviews — often hold knowledge that primary-source disclosure alone does not surface.

When a practitioner identifies a material correction, addition, or refinement to one of our intelligence-grade dossiers or methodology elements, we want to credit that contribution publicly — on the audit log, and (where the contribution rises to ongoing methodology refinement) as a named Field Corrections contributor on this page.

The programme is not a paid arrangement. We do not pay contributors. We do not offer subscription discounts. The exchange is straightforward: you correct or refine our work; we credit you publicly with attribution. That credit shows up in our audit log, on the public methodology page where the contribution refined an element, and (with explicit consent) on the published contributor list maintained here.

What kinds of contributions we credit

• Factual corrections — numerical errors, mis-citations, mis-attributed company structures, outdated production figures, mis-stated grades or tonnages, mis-applied currency conversions, mis-reported transaction values.
• Methodology refinements — pointing out where a methodology element does not handle a particular geological province type, asset class, or jurisdictional context as the data warrants. Often surfaces during deep editorial review of a specific dossier.
• Source additions — surfacing a primary-source document we missed (NI 43-101, JORC, S-K 1300, ESIA, government cadastre filing, regulatory disclosure) that materially changes a dossier's verification chain or quality state.
• Province-level structural critique — flagging a regional context that affects multiple dossiers (e.g., regional geophysical interpretation, basin-wide tenure pattern, jurisdictional fiscal regime change).
• Comparable-transaction additions — surfacing an African mining transaction within our 2015-2025 scope that we missed, with primary-source filing.

How to contribute

1. Identify the correction or contribution. Specific platform location (dossier name + section + claim, or methodology page + section), the correction or refinement, and the supporting source documents.
2. Email nikesh@afrimintel.com. Subject line: "Field Corrections — [dossier or methodology element]". Body should include the platform location, the proposed correction or addition, and primary-source references. We respond within 7 business days.
3. Editorial review. We verify the contribution against primary sources. Material corrections are applied within 7 business days per our Correction Velocity SLA; non-material corrections within 30 business days. We confirm back to you what was applied and what (if anything) was deferred or declined, with reasoning.
4. Audit log credit. Every accepted correction is documented in the public audit log with attribution to your name and (if you wish) your professional affiliation. The audit log entry names what changed, why, the source of the authoritative correction, and the version marker.
5. Optional: named Field Corrections contributor. If your contributions rise to ongoing methodology refinement (typically 2+ accepted material corrections within 6 months, or a single methodology-level refinement), we invite you to be listed publicly on this page as a named Field Corrections contributor with consent. Inclusion is opt-in; you can decline or remove your name at any time by emailing us.

What we do not do

We do not pay contributors. We do not offer subscription discounts, free Pro tier access, equity, advisory roles, or any other form of commercial consideration in exchange for corrections. The Field Corrections programme is structurally distinct from any commercial relationship with the platform. A contributor who is also a Pro tier subscriber pays the same subscription rate as any other Pro tier subscriber, and their subscription state is not affected by their contributor status.

We do not credit anonymous corrections on the audit log with named attribution — corrections may always be sent anonymously and are reviewed on the same merit, but the audit log entry will record the correction without naming you. The publicly-named contributor list is exclusively opt-in with explicit consent.

We do not use contributor names for marketing purposes. We do not publish testimonials. The Field Corrections programme exists for editorial discipline, not for commercial signalling.

Published Field Corrections contributors

Listed below: practitioners who have made material methodology-level contributions to Afrimintel and have given explicit consent to public listing. Inclusion is opt-in only; absence from this list does not indicate non-contribution. Names may appear or be removed at any time by contributor request.

How this programme relates to our wider editorial framework

Field Corrections sits within a wider editorial discipline architecture documented across these platform surfaces:

• Methodology — how we compute scores, dossier verification, and bankability layers
• Quality Standard — the three-state Sourced / Derived / Absent discipline applied to every numerical claim
• Audit Log — every correction, fix, data update, and version bump documented in versioned record
• Independence Policy — the firewall between commercial relationships and editorial content

The Correction Velocity SLA published in the Quality Standard (material errors corrected within 7 business days; non-material within 30 business days) applies to Field Corrections submissions in the same manner as to internally-identified corrections.

Editorial responsibility

Nikesh Patel, Founder, Afrimintel
Honorary Consul of Rwanda in Mauritius
nikesh@afrimintel.com
Operating jurisdiction: Mauritius (VAT-registered)

The Field Corrections programme is operated by Afrimintel under sole editorial responsibility of the founder. It is structurally distinct from any commercial relationship with the platform; contributor status does not affect subscription terms.