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 →
At the TARGET Conference (Perth, Australia) in April, I was able to present a poster and abstract on my PhD research entitled "The future(s) of minerals exploration". The work reviews my PhD studies so far (nearly finished) including the background research that inspired the research (wny we need more and better exploration), the reasons why a scenarios methodology was chosen,… 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 Allan Trench (University of Western Australia – UWA) and I complete our Dickensian trilogy on mining and politics in the Strictly Boardroom column on MiningNewPremium.net. This week we are visited by the ‘ghosts of politics yet to come’, with some help from Dicken's characters: Scrooge, Fezziwig, Marley and Cratchit. The characters shape four different scenarios for how the… Read this post →
This year I ran a series of scenarios workshops on the future of minerals exploration (and thus the future of mining too) as part of my PhD research at the Centre for Exploration Targeting, The University of Western Australia (UWA). The results are slowly starting to become available. There were three workshops, the second of which involved a group 19… Read this post →
