I'm currently teaching, with Allan Trench, on the International Mining for Development Centre's (IM4DC) Minerals Policy and Economics course. For our sessions we use Prof. Paul Collier's work as a framework for how to develop an economy using mineral resources. I recently posted the review below on Amazon and Goodreads about his book "The Bottom Billion". I thought I'd share it… Read this post →
This week I will be assisting Allan Trench, teaching on the International Mining for Development Centre (IM4DC) Mineral Economics and Policy course. An important topic, no doubt. As part of this we've started gathering some ideas on content. We published a short article on the "Three rules to build a resources economy" in Allan's Strictly Boardroom column on MiningNewsPremium.net. Briefly… Read this post →
My PhD supervisor Allan Trench recently presented at the AMIRA Exploration Managers' Conference on "What are the elements of industry collaboration that have added value to exploration success?". The presentation covers the issue that whilst we know success in mineral exploration is the discovery of new high quality mineral deposits, and we have a bit of an idea about what best practice in… Read this post →
A couple of month's ago my PhD supervisor, Allan Trench, presented at the RIU Explorers Conference in Fremantle, on the subject: "Gold Grades and Gold Costs: Exploding the High-Grade Myth". The presentation was based on work by student Matt Kanakis, so really credit should go to him. It's a nice, simple study, that provides some good initial evidence, that at… Read this post →
