All post from: December 2015

Assessment of the Potential for Transformational Market Growth Amongst the Critical Metals

- By: John P Sykes
Posted in: Blog, Commodities, Mineral Economics, Mineral Policy, Publications, Recommended, Technical Paper Reviews

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Last month I presented an abstract at the AusIMM Third International Future Mining Conference in Sydney, Australia. The presentation was entitled "An Assessment of the Potential for Transformational Market Growth Amongst the Critical Metals" and was co-authored with Josh Wright, Allan Trench and Paul Miller. The abstract previews a paper, that will be published in Applied Earth Science early next…
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A tour of 2016-2020 mineral commodity markets

- By: John P Sykes
Posted in: Blog, Commodities, Conferences, Mineral Economics, Publications, Recommended

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A few months ago my PhD supervisor, Allan Trench, presented a paper co-authored with myself and a colleague at CRU Group, Paul Robinson, to the AusIMM New Zealand Branch Annual Conference. Allan's presentation focused on CRU commodity price forecasts, however, the paper we submitted alongside also looked at some of the problems of commodity price forecasting and ways it can be…
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Getting into bismuth (MiningNewsPremium.net)

- By: John P Sykes
Posted in: Blog, Commodities, Media, Mineral Economics, Mining, Publications

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On Monday, an article I co-authored with Allan Trench in his Strictly Boardroom column on MiningNewsPremium.net was published. The article is entitled "Getting into bismuth" and makes the point that as an industry we should try to get to understand minor metals' markets, such as bismuth, much better. As miners seek new sources of revenues, as commodity prices fall, companies…
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