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Minerals sector value and risk in 4D: Discovery to Dismantling (SEG Conference)

26 October 2015 - By: John P Sykes
Posted in: Blog, Commodities, Conferences, Mineral Economics, Mining, Publications

Last month, Allan Trench presented an abstract at the Society of Economic Geologists (SEG) Conference in Hobart, Australia, that I helped contribute to, entitled: "Minerals Sector Value and Risk in 4D: Discovery to Dismantling". The paper summarised our thoughts on how technical risk, corporate risk and non-technical combine into a complex composite risk profile over the life of a mine project and mine.…
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Rare earths: Competence, competition and the contextual environment

3 March 2015 - By: John P Sykes
Posted in: Blog, Commodities, Conferences, Exploration, Mining, Publications

Last year I was pleased to accept a guest lecturing slot on Allan Trench's 'Strategic Management of Resources' Companies' course, which is part of the University of Western Australia's MBA programme. The presentation is available below and on my Slideshare and LinkedIn accounts. The presentation draws on an earlier presentation at Metal Pages Rare Earths conferences, with some new ideas…
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Why big companies should explore (MiningNewsPremium.net)

25 February 2015 - By: John P Sykes
Posted in: Blog, Commodities, Exploration, Recommended

"Why should we maintain exploration expenditure ‘through the cycle’? Why would we want to find more supply when markets are weak? Find out the answer with my and Allan Trench's article in the 'Strictly Boardroom column of MiningNewsPremium.net which came out on Monday.
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