Catching up on April's Strictly Boardroom column on MiningNews.net we get to a special guest piece, with Alex Atkins on the continuing lack of women in the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) minerals sector boardroom. A quick tally suggests only 7.7% of boardroom positions are held by women, across the top 150 largest minerals companies on the ASX. This suggests a… Read this post →
Last week's Strictly Boardroom column on MiningNewsPremium.net, with Allan Trench, looked at a fictional mineral explorer in trouble - running out of cash and opportunities. A new Chairman had been brought in to turn the company around. This week we look at how they did it. In brief, they avoided cost-cutting, which would have been of limited impact bearing in… Read this post →
Today I've co-authored an article with Allan Trench for his weekly Strictly Boardroom column on MiningNewspremium.net, entitled "2014 IPOs - Rewards for the Brave". Unsurprisingly the article covers the 2014 minerals IPO performance tracking the continued dearth of minerals Initial Public Offerings (IPOs), noting that even fewer new minerals companies listed on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) last year. In addition,… Read this post →
This year, Allan Trench of the Centre for Exploration Targeting is hosting Discovery Day on Tuesday 24th February at the Esplanade Hotel in Fremantle. This is my favourite annual seminar as it includes a host of presenters who have actually discovered mineral deposits, discussing the reality of how it happened, including what role serendipity played. Perspectives comes from geology, geochemistry,… Read this post →
This month's edition of RESOURCESTOCKS includes the annual 'Top 100' compiled by Allan Trench and myself. The list focuses on seeking out the length and breadth of variety available for mining and petroleum investors on the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX). According to portfolio theory investors should focus on diversification, so this list surveys the range of commodities, geographic locations and… Read this post →
