Continuing our catch-up on the May Strictly Boardroom articles, that I write with Allan Trench (The University of Western Australia) on MiningNews.net, the next article looks at the different types of mining economy, and what this means for corporate strategy and minerals policy. Borrowing from the World Economic Forum's classification of countries, we break mining economies into three types: factor-driven,… Read this post →
Catching up on May's Strictly Boardroom articles on MiningNews.net by myself and Allan Trench (The University of Western Australia) the first article of the month tackles the 'resource curse'. The article entitled "Resource curse is a misnomer: achieving resource blessing is the future" looks at contradictory data on the subject produced by the World Bank. When looking at the four… Read this post →
The International Tin Research Institute (ITRI) has released a new free report on the tin industry and its role in "sustainable development". The report also includes the essentials of tin economics and looks pretty smart. I do a considerable amount of consultancy for ITRI in designing their tin mine cost model and contributing to their industry reports and presentations, so… Read this post →
My good friend, Peter Kettle, Manager of Market Statistics & Market Studies at ITRI (International Tin Research Institute) has written an excellent guest article for the Mining Journal providing an overview of the tin industry and how the current market fundamentals are conspiring to create an opportunity for explorers and developers of new tin deposits. In the article Peter discusses… Read this post →
Behre Dolbear's ‘2010 Ranking of Countries for Mining Investment’ ranks 25 countries with major mining exploration and operations on seven criteria that focus on “political risk”. Seven criteria look at the country’s economic and political system, the degree to which social issues affect mining, delays in obtaining permits, corruption, the stability of the local currency and the tax regime. For… Read this post →
