The Editor

The Editor is the senior byline at Veta Madre Review, the hand on the tiller for our coverage of Colombian stocks and mining in Colombia.

Behind the byline is a long career spent in mining and financial media, and in capital markets on the junior resource side. That means a good many years reading drill tables, sitting through financings and learning, sometimes the hard way, the difference between a story and a deposit.

We keep the person anonymous on purpose. We would rather you judge the work by its sources and its reasoning than by a name or a résumé.

What that experience brings is a feel for the questions worth asking. How much of the money raised goes into the ground? Is that intercept a true width or a lucky angle? Where does the permit actually sit? The Editor tries to put those questions in front of readers following Colombian exploration companies, and to answer them from the record, not from a promoter’s slide deck.

The Editor also sets the tone of the place. Patient, plain-spoken and honest about risk. Exploration is a long walk with more dry holes than discoveries, and we would rather say so than pretend otherwise.

What The Editor writes

• Features that go deeper on a company, a region or a theme.
• The Vein, our free weekly newsletter, every Friday.
• The Weekly Policy Report, on laws, permits and royalties.
• The educational series in Colombia 101, from geology to history.
• Editorials, clearly labelled as opinion.

The last stop before publication

The Editor approves everything we publish. That includes the work of The Reporter, our daily news byline. Every piece is read, every figure is checked against its source and nothing goes live without sign-off. The rules for that review are in our editorial standards.

How to reach The Editor

Tips, corrections and questions go to [email protected]. Every message is read. See our contact page for what to include.

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