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Originally Posted by Suzy_A
You're a geologist?
What if someone seriously wanted you to spend $2.5M to investigate a site in some remote and expensive place to get to as someone sent them an email claiming that there is a vast underground deposit of green cheese that was laid down eons ago by dinosaurs and were offered the rights to the site for $500M?
I take it that you would take their money and tell them to spend the $2.5M on an exhaustive series of geophysical surveys and chemical analysis and then inform them that there is no green cheese there?
I think that would be unethical. As a geologist, you KNOW there is no green cheese deposit there. It is not your opinion that there may or may not be. It is a fact that there is.
Of course if you think there may be a green cheese deposit there then you are a deluded fool. If on the other hand you know there is no green cheese deposit there and take the money and tell them that you will investigate it, then you are immoral and a thief. Or maybe a lawyer.
So you were saying.... which one are you?
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I would offer them my opinion, as you did, that there was nothing to it and that it wouldn't be prudent for them to spend their money. Then it would be upto them as to what to do. However, I would still go and investigate it for them, because I wouldn't necessarily need to do much to tell if something was there. Maybe some exploratory drilling of a few holes would suffice. That's why they call it exploration...you don't know, for sure, what's there, but there's a chance that given the geology of the area in question, there could be something worthwhile. In many cases, you find out there's not, so you pack you stuff up and go onto the next prospect. Like anything else, it's a risk you have to be prepared to take, in order to possibly make something out of it. All geological exploration work is a risk....in many cases riskier than looking for that dinosaur green cheese. Even positively good geological indications sometimes show little or no results. Other times, relatively weak indications might turn up a surprise.
Just off topic here for a bit.....I just heard a big car (??) crash somewhere close outside. There's ambulance and police sirens going off near here. It's close by...wonder where??