An assay result is only as useful as the sample it represents, the custody record, the laboratory method and the purpose for which it is being used.
Evidence questions
A report should identify who collected the sample, from where, how much material it represents and how it reached the laboratory.
- Sampling design and representativeness
- Sample identification and location
- Chain of custody and tamper control
- Preparation and analytical method
- Quality control, detection limits and laboratory status
Different uses of assay data
A stockpile sale, exploration programme, resource estimate and process test require different evidence.
- Commercial shipment settlement
- Exploration targeting
- Resource or reserve work
- Metallurgical recovery testing
- Environmental and waste characterisation
Transaction control
Independent sampling may be required before price, payment or financing decisions.
- Define the legal entity, authorised representative and precise transaction objective.
- Separate public-facing information from confidential technical, corporate and financial evidence.
- Test consistency across titles, quantities, ownership, licence status, location and commercial assumptions.
- Record unresolved questions, third-party verification needs and the decision required from the next counterparty.
- Move to introduction, data room or mandate only when the minimum information standard is met.
How Georgia Mining Industry can support the process
GMI can organise the initial information request, separate public material from protected documents, coordinate preliminary counterparty review, open a controlled introduction or private deal room, and record agreed commercial steps. Every transaction remains subject to written authority, independent technical and legal review, compliance checks and a separately agreed mandate.