Boardroom E-13: the mining committee that approves the Sonora exploration, and the room already has the kit ready for the joining geologist
Boardroom E-13 is the operations room of a Mexican mining group with a Polanco HQ: 16 seats in a horseshoe, a robust table surface capable of holding rock samples and drill cores, a screen for video calls with mines in Sonora, Zacatecas, or Chihuahua, individual microphones for hybrid sessions with the geology team, a digital voting system with private-blockchain hash for traceability of exploration decisions, an adjoining room for the technical team's coffee break, capacity for a 6 to 10-hour session. This is where the mining-operations committees of Mexican groups with national presence sit (Grupo México, Industrias Peñoles, Minera Frisco, Grupo Bal, Minera Autlán, Grupo Dillard), where the exploration committee approves drilling programmes, where the agricultural commodities committee runs (coffee, berries, avocado, mango), and where the extractive-project due-diligence committee gathers. What defines Boardroom E-13 is not the robust surface; it is the geological rigour. The merch is delivered at the start of the committee, with a copy of the exploration plan and the geology director's signature.