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… Read this post →
Last week, a publication by colleagues Sam Davies (University of Western Australia & Alto Metals), David Groves (Orebusters), Allan Trench (UWA), and Jon Standing (Model Earth), to which I also contributed was published in the peer reviewed journal 'Ore Geology Reviews'. The paper is entitled "Entering an immature exploration search space: Assessment of the potential orogenic gold endowment of the… Read this post →
In November last year I presented an overview of my PhD research and 'journey' at the school postgraduate symposium. The unofficial title was "My PhD Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Mining". The more formal title for my PhD research is "Using scenario planning to improve the integration of geological, technical, economic, environmental, geopolitical, and socio-political factors… Read this post →
Earlier in the year I presented a paper at the AusIMM International Mining Geology Conference looking at the role of globalisation and sustianable development in the long term future of mining and exploration. In recent years, political opinion across the world has swayed back from globalisation towards protectionism and localism, whilst a focus on sustainable development seems to have switched… Read this post →
Earlier this year, we were proud to help University of Western Australia MBA student, Laurent Barrere present his coursework on Fortescue Mining Group (FMG) and Western Australian (WA) iron ore, as a paper at the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (AusIMM) Iron Ore Conference in Perth. Although locally focused the research is an excellent study on the challenges of… Read this post →
