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Globalisation and sustainability in the long-term future of mining and exploration

- By: John P Sykes
Posted in: Blog, Conferences, Exploration, Future, Management, Mineral Policy, Mining, PhD, Publications, Recommended, Research, Strategy

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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…
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Mining 2017 – ‘The Ghosts of Politics Yet to Come’

- By: John P Sykes
Posted in: Blog, Management, Media, Mineral Policy, Mining, PhD, Publications, Strategy

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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…
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Mining 2017 – ’The ghosts of politics present’

- By: John P Sykes
Posted in: Blog, Media, Mineral Policy, Mining, PhD, Publications

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This week Allan Trench (University of Western Australia – UWA) and I continue our Dickensian tale of mining and politics in the Strictly Boardroom column on MiningNewPremium.net. This week we consider the 'ghosts of politics present', most notably Donald Trump, but also the likes of Bernie Sanders, Nigel Farage, Jeremy Corbyn, Pauline Hanson and even Bill Shorten, and what they…
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Mining 2017 – ’The ghosts of politics past’

- By: John P Sykes
Posted in: Blog, Media, Mineral Policy, Mining, PhD, Publications

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Allan Trench (University of Western Australia - UWA) and I start the Strictly Boardroom column on MiningNewPremium.net this year, with the first in a three-part Dickensian inspired piece on mining and politics, that looks to explain the political ructions of 2016 and what they mean for the future of the mining sector. The work is inspired by and drawn from…
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