All post from: March 2018

Pay peanuts – get monkeys

- By: John P Sykes
Posted in: Blog, Management, Media, Publications

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Another popular Strictly Boardroom article from earlier this year was a twist on the 'pay peanuts, get monkeys' saying, with some insight as to how poor corporate culture becomes institutionalized and perpetuated. The article is still available on MiningNews.net or contact me for a copy. For keen followers of the Strictly Boardroom column, our book “Strictly (Mining) Boardroom Volume II:…
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Losing Control: The psychology of exploration management

- By: John P Sykes
Posted in: Blog, Exploration, Management, Media, Publications

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One of our more popular articles in Strictly Boardroom this year was on the psychology of exploration management, specifically giving teams autonomy. Let's be honest, we all know this, and there are multiple examples of why it should be done and how it works (we cite an academic experiment and an exploration company example in this piece), nonetheless, it is…
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The current investment landscape for mining, exploration and mineral sands

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

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Lats week, I was invited to speak on "The current investment landscape for mining, exploration and mineral sands" at the 19th Australian Mineral Sands Conference here in Perth. The presentation explored three broad, global trends and their high-level impact on mining and exploration, with some further specific thoughts on mineral sands, in line with the conference theme. The three trends…
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A better recipe for vertical integration – add salt or sweetener

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

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Earlier in the year, in our Strictly Boardroom column, we considered alternatives to the challenge of vertical integration in the minerals industry. In some commodity industries, such as gold, copper, and nickel sulphides, the majority of the value of the final 'metal' product flows back through to the miner - with smelters, refiners, traders and others further downstream making thin…
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The Emperor’s new cryptocurrencies – and gold

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

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Never ones to miss a passing bandwagon, earlier in the year we wrote a Strictly Boardroom column on digital currencies. As this was not an obvious area of our expertise we recruited some help from Dr Dick Baur - a finance expert focused on markets, who has written extensively on the machinations of the gold and bitcoin markets. Whilst recognising…
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