Today I have uploaded a presentation I gave in May to the Western African Exploration Initiative (WAXI) Stage 2 Outcomes Seminar, entitled: "The Role of Government Geoscience and Minerals Exploration in the Economic Development of West Africa". The presentation provided context for the excellent geoscience presented later in the seminar. The presentation also makes reference to Paul Collier's two excellent… Read this post →
Today I uploaded a presentation entitled "Myanmar: The Black Swan of Global Tin", which I co-authored with Nick Gardiner of Oxford University, and which was presented by Nick at the ITRI International Tin Forum, Shanghai, China, in May this year. Allan Trench of Curtin University and the University of Western Australia and Cui Lin of ITRI also assisted with the research. The presentation… Read this post →
Today I have co-authored another Strictly Boardroom column, with Allan Trench, on MiningNewsPremium.net. We pose a theoretical investment decision dilemma that is faced frequently in the reality of the mining industry. As a decent, single-asset mining company, what is your next strategic move - to sell up to a larger company, invest heavily in an exploration programme, or acquire another lower… Read this post →
Tomorrow (6th August) I have invited Prof. Jim Everett of the University of Western Australia to speak about his paper in Applied Earth Science last year: "Paradigm Lost: Lessons learned from consulting for the mining industry and other industries". The seminar is free to attend and starts at 4pm in the Woolnough Lecture Theatre at the University of Western Australia,… Read this post →
Yesterday I contributed to Allan Trench's weekly Strictly Boardroom column on MiningNewsPremium.net, with an article entitled "Building your own BHPB - avoiding multi-billion write offs". The article discusses a popular card game (Build your own BHP Billiton) Allan and I use to teach the basics of mining strategy on various mineral economics courses. Allan developed the game over ten years ago, discussing it in… Read this post →
