Today's Strictly Boardroom column on MiningNewsPremium.net with Allan Trench (The University of Western Australia), tries to answer an old question - how do you grow a mining company? At a basic level there are only three pathways - to buy new assets at a discount, to sell assets for a premium, or to explore and discover new assets. So which is the… Read this post →
Last year I presented a keynote at the Argus Media-Metal Pages China Metals Week in Guangzhou, entitled "Which markets are the future stars of the 'critical metals' industry?" The presentation looks at which of the critical metals, those defined as small important metal markets with supply constraints, have the potential to outgrow their current constraints and become large, industrial metals… Read this post →
In Allan Trench's Strictly Boardroom column on MiningNewsPremium.net today, I have helped him co-author an article entitled "The pleasure and pain of sexy metals". The article looks at the challenges in developing some of the so-called 'sexy metals' such as bismuth, cobalt, graphite, lithium, niobium, phosphate, potash, radium, rare earths, sulphuric acid, tantalum, tungsten, uranium and vanadium (admittedly some of these are… Read this post →
Book Review: The Elements of Power: Gadgets, Guns, and the Struggle for a Sustainable Future in the Rare Metal Age By David S. Abraham Amongst the flurry of books over the last few years focusing on the geopolitics of metals and mining, and in particular the so-called ‘critical metals’ David Abraham’s effort “The Elements of Power” promises a less-hyperbolic and… Read this post →
Today's Strictly Boardroom column with Allan Trench follows on from last week's piece about a boardroom spill motion at a (fake) Aussie gold miner. The rather traditional incumbent board had attracted the ire of a major investor who had nominated an alternate board of younger candidates. Over the last week we gathered the votes from a number of readers and… Read this post →
