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Published June 1, 2026
Exploration success is often attributed to individual discoveries.
Long-term performance may depend more heavily upon accumulated capability.
This paper evaluates how knowledge, processes, expertise, datasets, and decision systems combine to create exploration capability over time.
Capabilities persist beyond individual projects.
The accumulation of capability may represent one of the most valuable outputs of exploration.
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