Last week, a publication by colleagues Sam Davies (University of Western Australia & Alto Metals), David Groves (Orebusters), Allan Trench (UWA), and Jon Standing (Model Earth), to which I also contributed was published in the peer reviewed journal 'Ore Geology Reviews'. The paper is entitled "Entering an immature exploration search space: Assessment of the potential orogenic gold endowment of the… Read this post →
This week's Strictly Boardroom article draws from a recent scenario planning workshop (part of my PhD research), with colleagues at the Centre for Exploration Targeting looking at the future of minerals exploration. The team consisted of Prof. Allan Trench, Prof. Campbell McCuaig and PhD students: Jon Bell, Jeremie Giraud, Constanza Jara, Ahmad Saleem, Dave Stevenson and Jan Tunjic. The team… Read this post →
This week's Strictly Boardroom article with Allan Trench on MiningNewPremium.net is riding on the back of Leicester City's success and drawing out the management implications for the minerals exploration sector. The article is entitled: "The inevitable Leicester City article: The minerals exploration edition". The article looks at whether Leicester really were 5000 to 1 shots, and how a better analysis… Read this post →
I recently presented some of my PhD research at the Curtin Business School Higher Degree by Research Students' Colloquium. The work was entitled "Using scenarios to guide exploration targeting strategies". Pleasingly the associated paper won the award for "Best Paper" in the "Management" category. The presentation makes the point that due to the long lead times in mine exploration and… Read this post →
At the end of last year I did a special presentation on my PhD research for the Centre for Exploration Targeting (Curtin University & University of Western Australia) entitled "Influencing exploration choices in copper at a strategic level" and included below. The presentation takes a Hollywood theme using recent Hollywood dystopian films 'The Hunger Games', 'WALL-E', 'Iron Man 2', 'Avatar'… Read this post →