All post from: March 2016

The potential for transformational market growth amongst the critical metals

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

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This week, a pair of peer-reviewed articles to which I contributed were published in the Applied Earth Science journal of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (IOM3) and the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (AusIMM). The articles are part of a continuing thematic issue on mineral economics and critical minerals. The first, published online in January and discussed…
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Crude comparisons

- By: John P Sykes
Posted in: Blog, Commodities, Exploration, Mining, Strategy

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This week's Strictly Boardroom column on MiningNewsPremium.net with Allan Trench compared the strategic approaches of the oil and mining industries. A recent visit by a delegation from the University of Alberta, Canada, who were steeped in the state's oil-sands industry, to The University of Western Australia's Business School (a more, but not exclusively, mining-orientated place) facilitated discussion of approaches to…
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Getting elected: Lessons from Jeb Bush, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump

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

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Today's Strictly Boardroom column with Allan Trench on MiningNewsPremium.net looks at how to get elected onto the board of a professional society in order to change your industry for the better - specifically how to write a good candidate biography - something many candidates still do not do well. Drawing from the experiences of Jeb Bush, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump,…
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Mining sector strategies for the future – preparing for the next boom

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

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Last year, I helped Allan Trench put together a presentation on mining strategy, which he presented at the Wrays Resource Investment Group Seminar in West Perth, Australia. The presentation was entitled "Mining sector strategies for the future - Preparing for the next boom" and was a general review of the state of strategy in the mining sector and a couple…
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