All post from: March 2015

An Economic Perspective on Deep & Under Cover Minerals Exploration

- By: John P Sykes
Posted in: Blog, Conferences, Exploration, Mining

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Earlier this year my PhD supervisor, Allan Trench, presented an opening address to a special workshop at the ASEG-PESA (Australian Society of Exploration Geophysicists & Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia) 2015 conference, with some co-author assistance from myself and Matthew Kanakis. The workshop was entitled 'Geophysical signatures of mineral systems: more than bumps'. The workshop addresses the fact that as we deplete…
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Influencing exploration choices in copper at a strategic level (The Hollywood Edition)

- By: John P Sykes
Posted in: Blog, Commodities, Exploration, PhD, Recommended

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At the end of last year I did a special presentation on my PhD research for the Centre for Exploration Targeting (Curtin University & University of Western Australia) entitled "Influencing exploration choices in copper at a strategic level" and included below. The presentation takes a Hollywood theme using recent Hollywood dystopian films 'The Hunger Games', 'WALL-E', 'Iron Man 2', 'Avatar'…
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Non-technical risks and their impact on the mining industry

- By: John P Sykes
Posted in: Blog, Commodities, Mining, Publications, Recommended

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Continuing the catch up on presentations made last year, below is one on "Non-technical risks and their impact on the mining industry" made at the AusIMM Monograph 30 (Mineral Resource and Ore Reserve Estimation) Roadshow. The presentation was based on a paper written with Allan Trench and Dan Packey for the AusIMM Monograph 30, which was released in early 2014.…
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2014 IPOs – Rewards for the brave (MiningNewsPremium.net)

- By: John P Sykes
Posted in: Blog, Commodities, Exploration, Media, Mining, Publications, Recommended

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Today I've co-authored an article with Allan Trench for his weekly Strictly Boardroom column on MiningNewspremium.net, entitled "2014 IPOs - Rewards for the Brave". Unsurprisingly the article covers the 2014 minerals IPO performance tracking the continued dearth of minerals Initial Public Offerings (IPOs), noting that even fewer new minerals companies listed on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) last year. In addition,…
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Rare earths: Competence, competition and the contextual environment

- By: John P Sykes
Posted in: Blog, Commodities, Conferences, Exploration, Mining, Publications

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Last year I was pleased to accept a guest lecturing slot on Allan Trench's 'Strategic Management of Resources' Companies' course, which is part of the University of Western Australia's MBA programme. The presentation is available below and on my Slideshare and LinkedIn accounts. The presentation draws on an earlier presentation at Metal Pages Rare Earths conferences, with some new ideas…
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