The Ledger and the Landscape
Testing whether Mali's gold numbers hold up — ranking audit cases by whether production, costs, export prices, royalties and shipments can all be true at once.
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Testing whether Mali's gold numbers hold up — ranking audit cases by whether production, costs, export prices, royalties and shipments can all be true at once.
A new test for Ghana's mining revenue — ranking audit cases by whether a company's production, costs, prices, royalties and shipments can all be true at once.
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