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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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Building your own BHPB – avoiding multi-billion write-offs (MiningNewsPremium.net)

- By: John P Sykes
Posted in: Blog, Mining

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Yesterday I contributed to Allan Trench's weekly Strictly Boardroom column on MiningNewsPremium.net, with an article entitled "Building your own BHPB - avoiding multi-billion write offs". The article discusses a popular card game (Build your own BHP Billiton) Allan and I use to teach the basics of mining strategy on various mineral economics courses. Allan developed the game over ten years ago, discussing it in…
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