My PhD supervisor Allan Trench recently presented at the AMIRA Exploration Managers' Conference on "What are the elements of industry collaboration that have added value to exploration success?". The presentation covers the issue that whilst we know success in mineral exploration is the discovery of new high quality mineral deposits, and we have a bit of an idea about what best practice in… Read this post →
After a period of travel across Western and Eastern China, and the US states of Texas, Arizona, Colorado and Utah visiting rare earths, minor metal and economic geology conferences, and rare earth and silicon production facilities and numerous copper mines, it is time to catch up on the work done during that period including a number of online articles, conference presentations… Read this post →
At the AusIMM & AIG Ninth International Mining Geology Conference last week I was honoured to contribute to a keynote paper, along with John Vann, the Conference Chair. The paper was entitled: Mines versus Mineralisation - Deposit Quality, Mineral Exploration Strategy and the Role of 'Boundary Spanners'. My contributions were mainly in the area of systemic thinking about mine projects… Read this post →
