Earlier in the year, I had the pleasure to be involved in some fascinating research that is of genuine use to the mining industry. The work investigated the linkage between economic geology and mine costs in gold mining in Australian and New Zealand, i.e. what are the geological characteristics that lead to lower or higher mining costs across the industry… Read this post →
I'm not the sort of person who wins awards, so I'm particularly pleased to announce that a conference paper I co-authored with Allan Trench, on some of my PhD research, has won the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (AusIMM) Best Paper Award for 2017. The paper was presented to the International Mine Management Conference in Brisbane back in August.… Read this post →
The mining problem The period high commodity prices in the early 21st century has encouraged exploration for more mineral resources and attempts to develop new mines for most commodities. However, despite an apparent abundance of mineral resources in many commodities, the arrival of this new supply has often stalled. Increasingly mine projects are facing complex combinations of economic, environmental and… 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 →
