.... just accept figures without question would not be very professional...........

As you point out the Author depended on the information from the company and did no due diligence of his own and that is why he came up 500000 ounces short. Hard to believe that the TSX could find a problem with the report and the author could not and from what you show me all he did was write the report. I worked in an industry where you sent your product to 2 or 3 labs and you always used the best results and if you could only afford 1 test you sent it to the lab that always gave the best results. I guess some of that is going on here. Just look the other way and don't accept responsibility for the results because that is what I said in the report and if it is wrong well don't blame me.