My good friend, Peter Kettle, Manager of Market Statistics & Market Studies at ITRI (International Tin Research Institute) has written an excellent guest article for the Mining Journal providing an overview of the tin industry and how the current market fundamentals are conspiring to create an opportunity for explorers and developers of new tin deposits. In the article Peter discusses… Read this post →
There's been a lot of discussion recently about both deep sea mining and asteroid mining (though we seem to have enough problems, just developing "normal" mines). However this is one of the best videos I've seen so far about deep sea mining so I thought I'd share it with you: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-21787098 Read this post →
I was awarded my international student visa for Australia today, allowing me to spend up to 2017 studying trends in the development of copper mines, at the Centre for Exploration Targeting in Perth. I will write much more extensively about my PhD research in future, but for now here is a link to my PhD research proposal: www.johnpsykes.com/phd-proposal Read this post →
An update to the monthly Greenfields Research Commodity Price Barometer, which ranks commodity prices on a barometer style rating of stormy (low) through rain, change (medium) and fair to dry (high) comparing current spot prices to five year prevailing averages. Commodities are further divided into those rising and falling from their current positions. This month’s results show continued dry weather… Read this post →
