00 / A field guide to what lies beneath
A sample becomes a claim. A mine becomes a commitment. The consequences keep moving.
We follow the whole story. Saskatchewan Protocol gives you the depth to question the evidence, understand the machinery, and see what others leave out.
01 / Two ways into the ground
Resources are a way to understand how we know things—and what we set in motion when we act on that knowledge.
The sample, the map, the model. How evidence earns its authority, where inference begins, and what a confident claim leaves unresolved.
Begin with the claimA resource estimate is not the rock but a controlled claim about it↗ Then question the signalAn anomaly is a measurement of contrast, not a discovery↗The water, the money, the obligations. How a choice underground moves through physical systems, institutions and lives far beyond the mine.
Begin with what remainsTailings water is a second orebody without a grade↗ Then follow the moneyA financing package changes the mine it finances↗In an era of claims,
depth is an advantage.
We make difficult systems legible. Our writing connects the material fact to the decision it supports and the consequence it creates. You leave with better questions—and a sharper view of what is at stake.
03 / Take a closer look
Start with our free whitepaper, “3 disquieting things about Saskatchewan.” A resource number is a claim. Water keeps moving. Closure starts before the mine stops.
Get a sharper lens on the province—and the systems that reach beyond it.
04 / The reading room
Environmental assessment establishes conditions, receptors and commitments before construction. This epistemics essay examines how those records become land-use limits and why an unmeasured baseline cannot be reconstructed after the alteration.
A government can name an element critical in a single publication. This cascade follows that classification into project attention, processing bottlenecks, substitution claims and the difficult work of making material available in a usable form.
A laboratory result can be precise and still be the wrong number for a mine decision. This article follows sample preparation and QA/QC into block models and cut-off logic, showing where a measurement becomes an economic boundary.
Faults and fabrics organize permeability, repetition and omission in rock, but their role changes with orientation, mineral fill and reactivation. The article uses the Athabasca Basin margin to show why structural interpretation is both necessary and conditional.