The special parameter section includes a number of criteria which are always available as choices, plus a variety whose availability is decided by KRO. This may include KRO indices as well as special lists generated via offline criteria. Price range is best used in combination with market capitalization, shares issued or shares fully diluted. Market capitalization is the value the market assigns to the company based on trading price and issued shares. <p>Shares issued is a slippery number for venture listings which often have a large number of options and warrants as well as contingent project related issuances. <p>Shares fully diluted is much more important for resource juniors than the shares issued figure because juniors use equity to fund the acquisition and development of their ventures. <p>Insider percentage is based on AGM circular disclosures as well as early warning disclosures made by individuals who have reached a reporting threshold. The problem with this approach is that when a company issues additional stock that dilutes the insider below the threshold, such insider ceases to report insider activity. The insider percentage may thus over-state insider ownership. This criterion should be used identify companies where management still has a meaningful stake. <p>In examining the results attention must be paid to the reporting date, which is on a quarterly basis. <p>Because market capitalization is based on shares issued, care must be taken that the issued figure has not undergone significant dilution since the last reporting period, such as from a financing, cheap warrants being exercised, or balloon share issuances made. <p>It is difficult to determine which project should be designated the "flagship" for early stage companies or those which specialize in the prospect generator model. It is easier when the project is at an advanced stage. It is a KRO judgement call whether a project is "secondary" or "active". KRO maintains "inactive" projects in its database which show up in the KRO company profile, but these are not included in the search results. <p>Use specific area to target projects which may be designated as a member of an area play. <p>Use this criterion to exclude polymetallic projects by selecting either "gold-silver" or "base metals". <p>Use target metals in combination with deposit parameter choices to find projects with resource estimates that include these metals. <p>The displayed stages apply to metals exploration. Different descriptions apply to diamond and fossil fuel exploration. <p>The implied project value is what value the market is assigning to a project on a 100% normalized basis as if all other projects and assets of the company are worth zero. The IPV is the key to the rational speculation model. <p>Effective use of the deposit search parameters requires sophisticated selections. <p>Separate resource estimates for different zones or metallurgy are added up. <p>Some metals such as rare earth oxides have prices that are derived through complex methods which apply individual REO prices to the unique elemental distribution of the project. Other such as diamond deposits have a measured or modeled value assigned to them and are not varied according to market prices. <p>Use this criterion to constrain what the selections in tonnage and rock value deliver.