No, certainly not. The PDAC, for example, surely assesses many more exploration companies than operating companies.
Do you remember determined mining expenditures, as they were called, in the good old days? People would do prospecting, but at the same time finance it by mining a tunnel. These are called artisanal companies. They produce, but they don't produce. They pay for their exploration by producing. Some Canadian companies do it when the deposit is rich and allows it.
These companies certainly don't meet the standards as we know them.