Tomorrow I have invited Dr. Nick Gardiner to speak at the Centre for Exploration Targeting Seminar Series on "Myanmar: A Tethyan Mineral System?". Nick has recently joined the Curtin University node of the Centre for Exploration Targeting, from Oxford University. He is a specialist in isotope and metamorphic geology and one of the foremost experts on Myanmar. Some of the presentation will… Read this post →
Today the final of four scenarios on the mining industry in 2040 was published in Allan Trench's Strictly Boardroom column on MiningNewsPremium.net. This weeks scenario is entitled "Peasants' Revolt" and looks at what happens to the mining industry if it gets stuck in struggles of the present day and abandons the creation of its future, thus allowing outside industry insurgents to take… Read this post →
Last Monday, the third of four scenarios discussing the mining and exploration sector in 2040 was released on Allan Trench's Strictly Boardroom column on MiningNewsPremium.net. This scenario, entitled "Major miners as Counting Houses" (drawing influence from the nursery rhyme "Sing a song of sixpence") considers a profitable current industry, but one that is not committed to investing in its future… Read this post →
The paper I co-authored with Nick Gardiner (Centre for Exploration Targeting / Curtin University), Allan Trench (Centre for Exploration Targeting / Curtin University / The University of Western Australia) and Laurence Robb (Oxford University) on "Tin mining in Myanmar: Production and potential" has now been published in the December issue of Resources Policy. It is now available on online for… Read this post →
On Monday the second of four articles on the future of mining and exploration, I am co-authoring with Allan Trench, was released in his Strictly Boardroom column. The four articles present four different scenarios for the mining industry in 2040. Last week's article was entitled "An industry under siege" and considered an industry struggling in the present and also struggling to define… Read this post →
