In the winter edition of WA Director, the members' magazine of the Western Australian branch of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD), Allan Trench and I were privileged to be able to submit a piece on our book: "Strictly (Mining) Boardroom - Volume II: A Practitioner's Guide for Next Generation Directors". The article took the format of an interview,… Read this post →
To begin the new year, Allan Trench and I have published an article in his Strictly Boardroom column entitled "Beyond Fubar forecasts" resolving to improve mining industry forecasting techniques. The article looks at some common flaws with forecasts using Donald Rumsfeld's admittedly hackneyed 'known unknowns' and 'unknown unknowns' metaphor, before detailing six New Years resolutions to improve industry forecasting: 1)… Read this post →
A few months ago my PhD supervisor, Allan Trench, presented a paper co-authored with myself and a colleague at CRU Group, Paul Robinson, to the AusIMM New Zealand Branch Annual Conference. Allan's presentation focused on CRU commodity price forecasts, however, the paper we submitted alongside also looked at some of the problems of commodity price forecasting and ways it can be… Read this post →
Today, a paper I co-authored with Nick Gardiner (formerly of Oxford University, now Curtin University), Allan Trench (Curtin University & University of Western Australia) and Laurence Robb (Oxford University) was published in the journal Resources Policy, entitled: "Tin Mining in Myanmar: Production and Potential". We should also acknowledge the help of the International Tin Research Institute (ITRI) in compiling this paper. The… Read this post →
A belated happy 2015 to you all! As with many over the new year period, Greenfields has been taking stock of the last year and pondering over the coming year. As part of this exercise it was time to update the Greenfields Research Commodity Price Barometer for 2014 and see if the commodities weather was really as bad as it… Read this post →
