Under the Australian Accounting Standard AASB 6 'Exploration for and Evaluation of Mineral Resources',the area-of-interest method in accounting for pre-production costs of a mining operation is a special form of the:

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The area-of-interest method is a special form of the successful-efforts method, which allows for capitalization of costs directly associated with finding specific mineral resources, while costs not resulting in a discovery are expensed.