Resource intelligence for advanced decision-making.
The Applied Resource Policy Lab is a research and technology organization focused on natural resources, mining, energy, and strategic supply chains. We develop practical analytical tools and insights that help institutions make stronger choices under market, project, and policy uncertainty.
Our team
Technical depth, practical experience
ARPL brings together expertise across mineral and energy economics, mining engineering, finance, public policy, geopolitical strategy, computational research, and software development. Our team has experience working across natural resource policy, finance, capital markets, supply-chain strategy, AI governance, fiscal modeling, technology deployment, and institutional capacity building.
We combine technical depth with practical experience in the institutions and decisions that shape resource development. Together, we work to translate complex data, market conditions, and policy choices into tools and analysis that can be used by specialists and generalists alike.
Our work
Better decisions about natural resources, energy, and supply chains
We combine applied economic analysis, mining-sector fiscal modeling, and market intelligence into tools and auditable workflows that can be reused and adapted as markets, prices, and policy objectives shift.
Mining fiscal regime analysis
Evaluate how royalties, corporate income taxes, rent taxes, bonuses, state participation, and other fiscal instruments affect government revenue, project economics, and the distribution of value across stakeholders.
Market and scenario intelligence
Assess how price volatility, cost escalation, production delays, reserve uncertainty, financing conditions, and policy changes shape project- and market-level outcomes and implications for development objectives.
Supply-chain and investment analysis
Support decisions around strategic mineral supply, production timelines, bottlenecks, public investment priorities, and the risks and opportunities associated with different supply-chain pathways.
Training and institutional capability
Help organizations build durable analytical capacity through tools, documentation, training, and repeatable workflows that can be maintained across teams and over time.
We work to build institutional capacity for informed decision-making under uncertainty across fiscal negotiation, investment prioritization, supply-chain planning, revenue forecasting, and resource policy more broadly.
Flagship initiative
The Mining Fiscal Regime Simulator
A decision-support platform for evaluating mining fiscal regimes under market, project, and policy uncertainty. MiFRS lets users evaluate how mine economics, fiscal regimes, project risks, and market scenarios interact over time — supporting more effective and resilient decisions across the mining policy cycle.
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ARPL works with institutions seeking more rigorous, practical, and transparent approaches to mining policy, fiscal systems, market uncertainty, and strategic supply chains.