Earlier this year, we were proud to help University of Western Australia MBA student, Laurent Barrere present his coursework on Fortescue Mining Group (FMG) and Western Australian (WA) iron ore, as a paper at the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (AusIMM) Iron Ore Conference in Perth. Although locally focused the research is an excellent study on the challenges of… Read this post →
Are you a geologist in the mining sector? Do you know how mineral economics drives decision making and success in your industry? Prove it! Take the test now! http://www.slideshare.net/JohnSykes/mineral-economics-for-geologiststakethetestnowcentreforexplorationtargetingweb Allan Trench and I will be running our Mineral Economics for Geologists short course at the Centre for Exploration Targeting, Curtin University & The University of Western Australia on 2nd… Read this post →
Adelaide, Australia Yesterday Allan Trench presented a paper we co-authoured on "Perspectives on Mineral Commodity Price Cycles and their Relevance to Underground Mining" to the 12th AusIMM Underground Operators Conference, in Adelaide, Australia. The paper is available in the proceedings (digital and paper) through the AusIMM. The abstract is below: Mineral commodity prices are subject to volatility over both the… Read this post →
London's mining scene gathered in force at the Mining Journal's Gold Day. However, we left with concerns about the extent to which gold prices are being supported by investors, and about increasing political risk for gold miners, which is reducing some miners' leverage to the booming gold price. Investor-supported gold Just how much the current high gold price has been… Read this post →
