PERC Code endorsed

Back to August 2009 issue

The Society, with the Institute of Geologists of Ireland, the Institute of Mining, Mineralogy and Materials and the European Federation of Geology has been active in promoting a Pan-European Reserves and Resources Reporting Code, the first edition of which was issued in 2001 and has now been updated as PERC Code 2008.

As a sponsoring organisation of the Code all Fellows of the Society who work on reserve and resource reporting are bound by it under the Society’s Code of Conduct. Council has now endorsed the code (at its meeting on 17 June 2009) which is now binding on all Fellows of the Society.

The 53-page code, first described by Stephen Henley in these pages in September last year (see www.geolsoc.org.uk/gsl/geoscientist/atlarge/page4232.html) and last month by Sarah Day (Gold Standard) can be downloaded from http://www.vmine.net/percreserves.