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Everything on this platform is free to quote. No registration, no approval step, and we do not review copy before publication. Advance access to a Scorecard edition, under embargo, is available on request.

Citation terms

• Quote freely, with attribution. Figures, findings and the correction record may be cited without asking us first.
• Say which state a figure is in. Each number is Sourced (traced to a named filing), Derived (our arithmetic from stated inputs) or Absent (no public figure exists). Reporting a Derived figure as though the company published it would be wrong, and we would have to correct it.
• Credit the underlying document too. The company filed it; we checked it. Both belong in the sentence.
• Reuse terms. The open tier — the spatial-reference and research-grade deposit records, and the archived deposit on Zenodo — is CC-BY 4.0: usable in charts and datasets with attribution. The beneficial-ownership contracts feed (bo-contracts.json) carries CC BY-SA 4.0, which requires share-alike. Everything else is free to quote with attribution under the Terms. Which is which: /cite/.
• Check a document. Send any published mining document to the Checking Desk: we say which figures match the company's earlier filings, which contradict them and which appear nowhere. Working press within 48 hours.
• Link to the row, not the page. Every row of the register has its own link (the # next to its date). Changes to the record, dated: RSS.

Verified story material

Each is on the public record with its sources, so you can check it rather than take it from us.

The Africa Mining Guidance Scorecard. Did African mining companies deliver what they promised? Company promises scored against the same company's own published results, MET and NOT MET under one rule. Edition 1 by 30 November 2026. The Scorecard page.

We publish where the public record disagrees with itself. The divergence record carries cases where two primary documents state different things about the same asset, both sides published, neither silently preferred — a category that normally disappears when a database overwrites the old figure.

We score our own claims and publish our own errors. The register scores forward claims made by operators and by us; the audit log is append-only and carries every correction, including missed deadlines and defects we introduced ourselves.

What nobody has published is the more interesting half. Figures the public record does not contain are marked Absent with a note on what document would close the gap, rather than estimated. For reporting on extractives transparency, the Absent cells are usually the story.

Assets

• Editor photograph: nikesh-patel.jpg, free to use with the credit above.
• Two complete worked dossiers, free: Kabanga (pre-FID) and Loulo-Gounkoto.
• Method published in full: methodology and Quality Standard.

What we will not do

• Tell you whether a company is a good investment. We verify what has been disclosed and take no view on it. We will decline that question.
• Comment on jurisdictions where the Editor-in-Chief holds an interest. Afrimintel carries data on the DRC, Rwanda and the Great Lakes but offers no editorial opinion on them, and says why.
• Speculate. If it is not sourced, the answer is that we do not have it.

Corrections. If we have something wrong, tell us: material errors are corrected within 7 business days and published on the audit log with the date. That applies to corrections raised by journalists exactly as to our own.