Why this matters beyond your team
This page is not part of the sales argument. It is the reason the product exists, for anyone who wants to know what the people building it think they are doing.
The wider stake
The Critical Raw Materials Act, adopted in March 2024, sets 2030 benchmarks for the Union's own capacity: 10 % of annual needs extracted, 40 % processed, 25 % recycled, and no more than 65 % of any strategic raw material coming from a single third country. In February 2026 the European Court of Auditors warned that many of the strategic projects meant to deliver that are likely to miss the date.
A permit, a financing round and a public-interest designation are all granted against a resource statement. The bottleneck is rarely the geology. It is how long the statement takes to produce, and how much of the reasoning behind it can actually be shown to the regulator and the investor who are asked to rely on it.
There are not many people who can carry an orebody from drillhole to signed model, and the ones who can are already busy. A method that lives in a graph rather than in one person's macro is a method a second person can run, and a graduate can learn from. That is a capacity problem being solved, not a licence being sold.
This comes out of New Caledonian nickel, where estimation is a daily industrial practice rather than a research topic — laterite profiles, moisture and density, grade control against a plant that runs whether or not the model is finished. Built against that, and it applies to any deposit anywhere.
Making those statements faster to produce and harder to argue with
is not a productivity feature. It is the constraint.
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