Here from Business Week is a very cool story on a prize I had not heard of before.
A few years back, Toronto-based gold mining company Goldcorp (GG)
was in trouble. Besieged by strikes, lingering debts, and an
exceedingly high cost of production, the company had terminated mining
operations….Chief Executive Officer Rob McEwen needed a miracle. Frustrated that
his in-house geologists couldn’t reliably estimate the value and
location of the gold on his property, McEwen did something unheard of
in his industry: He published his geological data on the Web for all to
see and challenged the world to do the prospecting. The "Goldcorp
Challenge" made a total of $575,000 in prize money available to
participants who submitted the best methods and estimates…Within weeks, submissions from around the world were flooding into
Goldcorp headquarters. There were entries from graduate students,
management consultants, mathematicians, military officers, and a
virtual army of geologists….The contestants identified 110 targets on the Red Lake property,
more than 80% of which yielded substantial quantities of gold. In fact,
since the challenge was initiated, an astounding 8 million ounces of
gold have been found–worth well over $3 billion. Not a bad return on a
half million dollar investment.















Wonder if I could do something similar in the stock market? If you give me sure fire winners I’ll pay you a tiny percentage of the profits.
It’s interesting what this example has in common with the Netflix example: A company has a large data set that it can safely share without significantly sacrificing its assets.
In the case of Goldcorp, of course, their assets are their mining rights over the land, which are presumably legally secured. The geological data isn’t useful to someone without those rights. In the case of Netflix, it’s a little more subtle, but their main asset is a combination of their “brand” and the identities of their customers. As long as their competitors can’t use the data to poach their customers, Netflix can share it to attract prize seekers. They risk competitors using their data to formulate their own taste-matching algorithms, but the amount Netflix is likely to lose from this is pretty small.
However, I wonder how often a company has an important data set that it can share without giving up important trade secrets? I suspect that it’s not all that common.
The more interesting aspect of the story is the open source angle. If there truly is benefit to opening proprietary data to a global audience, this would fly in the face of the advice thousands of lawyers have been giving companies for decades
Talk about outsourcing…..
So, how many in-house geologists did he need????
This could also just mean that his geologists were incredibly incompetent to have missed all that gold under their nose.
The rational for not releasing the data is that if it turned out the land was rich, they’d have competition for buying up the surrounding land. This did happen, in fact a GG competitor hired the contest’s 2nd place winner a job and bought up adjacent land to build a mine.
A secondary rationale for not releasing the data is that releasing the data allows outsiders to make a more accurate assessment of the actual value of your company, which is not always in the company’s best interests. Goldcorp handled this by releasing the information in a way which allowed them to realize the benefit of that more accurate information.
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