In this episode of Measured, Rene interviews Mo Srivastava, a Senior Consultant at Red Dot 3D and renowned geostatistician. Reflecting on his dynamic career, Mo shares his continually evolving perspective on the philosophies that underpin consulting, as well as some memorable stories and anecdotes from his global travels. Mo and Rene discuss how effective and meaningful consulting needs to be more than simply supplying technical solutions — long-term success requires working with clients to ensure they also have the resources (and mindsets!) to sustain these outcomes.

Measured is RSC’s podcast series, with RSC Managing Director and Principal Consultant René Sterk conversing with a range of industry personalities. Expect a range of talking points, many with a technical theme, but also some of our industry friends sharing anecdotes about their career in the mineral exploration and mining sector and thoughts on some of the issues the industry faces.

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Timestamps:
00:02:05: Working and travelling around the world
00:12:35: The philosophy of consulting
00:16:40: Project anecdotes
00:32:58: What is a ‘consultant’?
00:40:27: Finding joy in work
00:44:48: Risk taking and career progression
00:51:31: Probabilistic projections and reporting
01:10:23: Statistical significance and materiality
1:29:46: Subjective experience and judgment accuracy

Rayleen Hargreaves, Principal Consultant at Snowden Optiro took time out of her busy schedule to answer René’s questions on reconciliation, the common issues encountered, and new industry tools that can assist with reconciliation.

Measured is RSC’s podcast series, with RSC Managing Director and Principal Consultant René Sterk conversing with a range of industry personalities. Expect a range of talking points, many with a technical theme, but also some of our industry friends sharing anecdotes about their career in the mineral exploration and mining sector and thoughts on some of the issues the industry faces.

Please enjoy, and don't forget to follow RSC on all our social media platforms!
YouTube: @rscyoutube
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/rsc-mme-ltd
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#measuredpodcast

Timestamps:
1:38 Why is it so hard to break reconciliation out of Excel?
7:19 Dealing with people problems in reconciliation
10:00 Should there be peer review and auditing guidelines?
12:17 Why we need more literature on underground reconciliation processes.
13:58 Is PowerBI a threat, or something that should be embraced?

After spending most of his working life within large organisations, Paul Hodkiewicz is now an independent consultant (Samarah Solutions).
Following his participation in a panel discussion at the MRE conference last month, Paul sat down with Rene and discussed how to handle the data overload many of us face, and the need to be able to agree to disagree in order to solve the big problems facing our the industry.

Measured is RSC’s podcast series, with RSC Managing Director and Principal Consultant René Sterk conversing with a range of industry personalities. Expect a range of talking points, many with a technical theme, but also some of our industry friends sharing anecdotes about their career in the mineral exploration and mining sector and thoughts on some of the issues the industry faces.

Please enjoy, and don't forget to follow RSC on all our social media platforms!
YouTube: @rscyoutube
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/rsc-mme-ltd
Instagram: rsc_gram
TikTok: rsc_tiktok
#measuredpodcast

Timestamp:
2:23 Challenging the status quo.
6:33 Innovation and moving the needle
10:18 Resolution Reduction problem
12:50 Pixels to intervals – the translation gap in the industry
14:20 Drillholes as representative outcrops
17:40 Seeing possibilities in problems
18:22 Simple data tools and using what’s available
21:20 Future plans and teaching opportunities