Today, myself, Allan Trench (University of Western Australia) and Jon Hronsky (Western Mining Services & Centre for Exploration Targeting) continued our articles on the X-Files and mineral exploration. In today's article we looked at how Fox Mulder might go about opening up new exploration search space. The list we came up with was: entering previously inaccessible regions whether due to… Read this post →
A few months ago my PhD supervisor, Allan Trench, presented a paper co-authored with myself and a colleague at CRU Group, Paul Robinson, to the AusIMM New Zealand Branch Annual Conference. Allan's presentation focused on CRU commodity price forecasts, however, the paper we submitted alongside also looked at some of the problems of commodity price forecasting and ways it can be… Read this post →
I'm helping Allan Trench present a seminar on "Mining Sector Strategies for the Future" next Monday 2nd November, in West Perth, hosted by the Resource Innovation Group. We're just putting together the final slides now. Broadly we'll look at what we're getting wrong at the moment with mining sector strategy, and some simple things we can do to improve strategy… Read this post →
Yesterday, a co-authored article I did with Allan Trench for his Strictly Boardroom column was published on MiningNewsPremium.net, entitled "Beyond China - why some commodities are profitable (and others not)". The article is available to subscribers of MiningNewsPremium.net. The article is a reminder to industry strategists and mineral economists that there are more ways to profit in the mining industry than high… Read this post →
Are you a geologist in the mining sector? Do you know how mineral economics drives decision making and success in your industry? Prove it! Take the test now! http://www.slideshare.net/JohnSykes/mineral-economics-for-geologiststakethetestnowcentreforexplorationtargetingweb Allan Trench and I will be running our Mineral Economics for Geologists short course at the Centre for Exploration Targeting, Curtin University & The University of Western Australia on 2nd… Read this post →
