Continuing our catch-up on last year's articles, we come to one of my favourite and most unusual Strictly Boardroom articles last year, inspired by my baby daughter: "Night-shift procedures and the logic of management". The article uses a simple set of instructions for how to change a nappy seen at a local daycare centre to demonstrate how difficult it actually… Read this post →
This week's Strictly Boardroom with Allan Trench on MiningNewsPremium.net looks to a couple of experts, one from inside and one from outside of the mining sector, for tips on how to supercharge your career. Roy Woodall, exploration icon and former head of exploration at Western Mining Corporation famously advised young geoscientists to improve their ability to upward communicate in organisations,… Read this post →
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… Read this post →
If you look in the September/October edition of RESOURCESTOCKS magazine you will find a article by myself and good friend Josh Wright of Rowton Ltd, entitled "Mining the Future: A 21st Century Metal". The article reviews how a number of supply, demand and discover factors have to fall in line for paradigmatic change in the scale of a minerals market… Read this post →
Last week I was proud to present a paper at the AusIMM & AIG Ninth International Mining Geology Conference with a paper entitled "Resources vs Reserves: Towards a Systems-based understanding of Exploration and Mine Project Development and the Role of the Mining Geologist". The abstract is included below, as well as a link to the presentation. A copy of the… Read this post →
