How the notes are made

Editorial policy

The rules Thickened Ground Notes holds itself to: traced facts, dated verifications, named sources, public corrections and no paid coverage.

Facts are traced or they are cut

Every factual claim on this site is either quoted from the two public documents it cites, with chapter, principle or requirement numbers, or it is dropped. When the desk adds its own reading, the page says so in plain words. Numbers are transcribed exactly; ranges keep their original span; uncertainty is kept, not ironed.

The citation base stays small, on purpose

The site stands on the Global Industry Standard on Tailings Management and the ICMM Good Practice Guide, both public, both described on the sources page with their editions and dates. A small base is not a bias shortcut: it is what makes every sentence checkable by a reader in minutes. If the documents change, the desk re-verifies and dates the change.

Language and independence

The desk writes in plain English, avoids invented urgency, and takes no position on specific companies, mines or countries. No mining company, consultancy or lobby reviews the notes before publication, pays for them, or asks for changes; the sponsored content page states the stance in full.

Corrections in public

When the desk is wrong, the correction is made on the page that was wrong, visibly and with its date, rather than silently in the night. Write to [email protected] with the sentence and your source. A correction that changes a claim also updates the note’s source list if needed.

What the desk will not do

It will not manufacture expertise, invent people or experience, present generated illustration as photographic evidence of any real site, or pad a note to a length its question does not need. The figures on this site are clearly labelled diagrams of ideas, not pictures of places. If a note cannot be written honestly at a useful length, it is not written.

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