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几年来,黄金公司一直难以确定黄金在红湖矿床上的准确位置。CEO 麦克欧文想:如果公司的地质学家不能找到金矿,也许其他人可以!关键是要公开探矿信息,就像托瓦尔兹为了 Linux 而公开代码那样。虽然在采矿业,地质数据极为保密,但麦克欧文还是将信息在互联网发布。最终,参赛者发现了110个目标,其中一半是公司以前没有发现的,80%多的新目标,后来发现确实有大量黄金。这一尝试,把黄金公司的价值从1亿美元提升到90亿美元。
For years, it has been difficult for gold companies to determine the exact location of gold on the Red Lake deposit. CEO Mike Owen thinks: If the company’s geologists can not find the gold mine, maybe others can! The key is to make public the prospecting information, just as Tovalut’s public code for Linux. Although the geological data is extremely confidential in the mining industry, McOwen releases information on the Internet. Eventually, the contestants identified 110 goals, half of which were new ones that the company had not previously discovered, more than 80%, and later found that there was indeed a lot of gold. This attempt raised the value of the gold company from 100 million U.S. dollars to 9 billion U.S. dollars.