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Seven habits of a kick-ass minerals economy

- By: John P Sykes
Posted in: Blog, Commodities, Exploration, Media, Mineral Economics, Mineral Policy, Mining, Publications

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How do you build an economy based on mineral resources? Allan Trench and I tried to answer this last week in our Strictly Boardroom column on MiningNewspremium.net. We came up with a seven-step framework: Identify the endowment, i.e. make a decent estimate of what the undiscovered mineral potential is. Make new discoveries, i.e. incentivise exploration so that more mineral discoveries…
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Which markets are the future stars of the ‘critical metals’ industry?

- By: John P Sykes
Posted in: Blog, Commodities, Conferences, Exploration, Mineral Economics, Mineral Policy, Mining, Publications

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Last year I presented a keynote at the Argus Media-Metal Pages China Metals Week in Guangzhou, entitled "Which markets are the future stars of the 'critical metals' industry?" The presentation looks at which of the critical metals, those defined as small important metal markets with supply constraints, have the potential to outgrow their current constraints and become large, industrial metals…
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Greenfields Research Commodity Price Barometer: In the eye of the storm

- By: John P Sykes
Posted in: Blog, Commodities, Mineral Economics

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The new year gives us the chance to review commodity price performance over the last year, and a bit longer. It doesn’t take much insight to realise the industry is in somewhat of a malaise; however, it is always useful to understand the data and check our perceptions match reality. For this we’ll use the Greenfields Research Commodity Price Barometer©.…
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A tour of 2016-2020 mineral commodity markets

- By: John P Sykes
Posted in: Blog, Commodities, Conferences, Mineral Economics, Publications, Recommended

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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…
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Beyond China – why some commodities are profitable (MiningNewsPremium.net)

- By: John P Sykes
Posted in: Commodities, Mineral Economics, Mining, Publications, Recommended

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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…
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