All post from: March 2017

IOM3 Mann Redmayne Medal for paper on ‘critical metals’

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

0

Allan Trench, Josh Wright and I have received the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (IOM3) Mann Redmayne Medal for our paper “Discovery, supply and demand: From metals of antiquity to critical metals”. The Mann Redmayne Medal is an IOM3 award to a member of IOM3 or AusIMM for the best paper published in one of its three Transactions of…
Read this post →

The challenges of ex-China rare earth mine development (and how to overcome them)

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

0

Last September, my colleague Josh Wright at Rowton Ltd., presented some work done with myself and Allan Trench on "The challenges of ex-China Rare Earth Mine Development (and how to overcome them)" at the Argus Media Rare Earths Conference in Hangzhou, China. The presentation analysed the components of a good strategy for rare earths mine project development including funding options,…
Read this post →

Which battery metals will be the winners in the energy transition?

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

0

Last August, my colleague Josh Wright of Rowton Ltd., presented some research conducted with Allan Trench (The University of Western Australia) and myself, at the Argus Media China Metals Week Conference in Beijing, China. The presentation was entitled "Which battery metals will be the winners in the energy transition?" and is available on Slideshare: https://www.slideshare.net/JohnSykes/battery-metals-the-energy-transition-wright-et-al-sep-2016-greenfields-research-rowton-ltd-centre-for-exploration-targeting-the-university-of-western-australia   The key points of…
Read this post →

Re-thinking the mining industry

- By: John P Sykes
Posted in: Blog, Management, Strategy

0

This week we've been re-thinking the mining industry, more specifically whether a change from linear modes of thinking to more systemic ways of thinking will help. In the Strictly Boardroom article on MiningNews.net we use the re-thinking of Maslow's 'Hierarchy of Needs' into an inter-related set of needs as inspiration to try this style of thinking in the mining sector.…
Read this post →