This year I ran a series of scenarios workshops on the future of minerals exploration (and thus the future of mining too) as part of my PhD research at the Centre for Exploration Targeting, The University of Western Australia (UWA). The results are slowly starting to become available. There were three workshops, the second of which involved a group 19… Read this post →
Earlier in the year, I had the pleasure to be involved in some fascinating research that is of genuine use to the mining industry. The work investigated the linkage between economic geology and mine costs in gold mining in Australian and New Zealand, i.e. what are the geological characteristics that lead to lower or higher mining costs across the industry… Read this post →
I'm not the sort of person who wins awards, so I'm particularly pleased to announce that a conference paper I co-authored with Allan Trench, on some of my PhD research, has won the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (AusIMM) Best Paper Award for 2017. The paper was presented to the International Mine Management Conference in Brisbane back in August.… Read this post →
After visiting a familiarly gender-unbalanced Mines and Money Conference in London a couple of week's ago, this week's Strictly Boardroom column with Allan Trench on MiningNewsPremium.net looks at the issue of 'women in mining'. After surveying the sector and finding the problem is far wider than UK-based mining conferences, the article considers two common objections (put forward by male industry… Read this post →
