Written by: Barbora Choi on Mon May 26

IFRS 6 Exploration for and Evaluation of Mineral Resources

Accounting for exploration & evaluation expenditures, exploration & evaluation assets and the disclosures.

“Explore, but know your limits.” Mitta Xinindlu.

The scarcity, and strategic importance of natural resources made headlines in the past months:

🔹 The minerals deal between the US and Ukraine,

🔹 Greenland as largely unexplored natural reserve territory,

🔹 China`s dominance in rare earths used as a leverage in tariff negotiations.

This is a quick and compact refresher on IFRS 6 Exploration for and Evaluation of Mineral Resources.