All post from: May 2015

Revolutionizing the resource prospectivity game in Australia and globally (Ross Cayley)

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

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Ross Cayley of the Geological Survey of Victoria will host a seminar tomorrow on "The Lachlan Orocline of Eastern Australia: Revolutionizing the resource prospectivity game in Australia and globally" at the Centre for Exploration Targeting. I've organised this seminar not only because its a great piece of geoscience, published in the most prestigious journal, Nature, but also because unlike a lot…
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IOM3 Young Persons’ World Lecture Competition 2015

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

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This year I am proud to be helping organise both the inaugural Western Australian and All-Australian Finals to qualify for the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (IOM3) Young Persons' World Lecture Competition. As you will have no doubt guessed from the number of presentations on this website I am a passionate believer in the effective communication of good science, engineering and…
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The forgotten economic potential of new mineral discovery (MiningNewsPremium.net)

- By: John P Sykes
Posted in: Blog, Exploration, Mineral Economics, Mineral Policy, Mining

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There's a co-authored article with Allan Trench on today's MiningNewsPremium.net Strictly Boardroom column, entitled "The forgotten economic potential of new mineral discovery". The article draws from some of our experiences in the past few weeks teaching on the International Mining for Development Centre's Mineral Policy and Economics course. Quite simply the article reviews how governments often focus on gaining their…
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