Interesting point Reminds me of Pacific Ridge's approach:
https://www.kitco.com/news/article/2024-02-05/what-market-needs-big-discovery-john-kaiser-founder-kaiser-research-online
“The big change that I think needs to happen is the attitude of investors that you drill today you have a discovery hole tomorrow. That has to go,” he said. “There has to be a longer-term attitude, where we even drill holes to vector, to build the three-dimensional geological case as to where we should ultimately put our sniper shot.”