The full list of speakers for the AIG "Value Creation in Exploration" Seminar has been confirmed. The list announced last week has been added to by Ian Willis, a veteran of Anglo American Exploration, who will discuss "Creating Value from Brownfields Exploration" which will kick start the session on "Exploration Strategy". Further details can be found on last week's post or the… Read this post →
With a few notable exceptions, minerals exploration is suffering a funding drought. Whilst some factors such as commodity prices and financial crises may be out of the industry's control, there is much that can be done by the industry itself to help improve the way it creates value for stakeholders. In an attempt to address these issues and hopefully provide… Read this post →
My PhD supervisor Allan Trench recently presented at the AMIRA Exploration Managers' Conference on "What are the elements of industry collaboration that have added value to exploration success?". The presentation covers the issue that whilst we know success in mineral exploration is the discovery of new high quality mineral deposits, and we have a bit of an idea about what best practice in… Read this post →
Earlier this year my PhD supervisor, Allan Trench, presented an opening address to a special workshop at the ASEG-PESA (Australian Society of Exploration Geophysicists & Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia) 2015 conference, with some co-author assistance from myself and Matthew Kanakis. The workshop was entitled 'Geophysical signatures of mineral systems: more than bumps'. The workshop addresses the fact that as we deplete… Read this post →
