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The pleasure and pain of sexy metals

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

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In Allan Trench's Strictly Boardroom column on MiningNewsPremium.net today, I have helped him co-author an article entitled "The pleasure and pain of sexy metals". The article looks at the challenges in developing some of the so-called 'sexy metals' such as bismuth, cobalt, graphite, lithium, niobium, phosphate, potash, radium, rare earths, sulphuric acid, tantalum, tungsten, uranium and vanadium (admittedly some of these are…
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Bullish at the ITRI Tin Conference

- By: John P Sykes
Posted in: Blog, Commodities, Conferences, Mining, Travel

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Greenfields recently spent the week in the junior mining hub of Vancouver. We were there to present the results of a tin mine cost modelling exercise to the board of ITRI, the tin industry body, and to attend ITRI’s International Tin Conference. The conference left us with multiple reasons to be bullish about tin. Plenty of positives for tin The…
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