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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
Strategy is one of those hard things to define. A couple of weeks ago we had a go at trying to define it on the Strictly Boardroom column on MiningNews. I'm not sure how much clarity we added, but you can read it here: "When lost in the fog of strategy, turn on your headlights" or contact me for a… Read this post →
