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Did African mining companies deliver what they promised?
The Scorecard sets each company's own published promises — production guidance, first-production dates, investment decisions and financing milestones — against the same company's own published results. A promise kept is recorded as MET and a promise missed as NOT MET, under the same rules. It records whether a company's record agrees with itself. It does not judge whether a promise was reasonable.
Before each edition is published, every company that appears in it is sent the same right-of-reply letter and given ten business days. Replies are published beside the row. On the day an edition is published, every company with a row receives the same short notice: where its rows are published and how to request a correction. It contains no request and no offer. How right of reply works ›
The Scorecard is published from the guidance & claims register, which is public now and currently holds 45 rows. The register also records Afrimintel's own promises and errors; the Scorecard counts company promises only. Each row names its source document and date.
Paying Afrimintel never changes a score. Where a company in a row is also an Afrimintel customer, the row says so. The rule ›
Rows already settled on the register, as they stand there. Each links to its row, which names the source document and date.
Free to quote with attribution. Advance access to an edition, under embargo, on request. Contact: Nikesh Patel, Editor-in-Chief — nikesh@afrimintel.com. Every row has its own link to cite. Send a document to check: the Checking Desk. Changes to the record, dated: RSS. Press page ›