Never ones to miss a passing bandwagon, earlier in the year we wrote a Strictly Boardroom column on digital currencies. As this was not an obvious area of our expertise we recruited some help from Dr Dick Baur - a finance expert focused on markets, who has written extensively on the machinations of the gold and bitcoin markets. Whilst recognising… Read this post →
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 →
Continuing our catch up on last year's Strictly Boardroom articles in September we looked at the proposed gold mine royalty increase by the Western Australian government. Whilst, obviously the local gold industry was not happy, and in the end lobbied successfully for the proposal to be dropped, we (alongside gold expert Sam Ulrich) thought the proposal a good opportunity for… Read this post →
The final work I had the pleasure to be involved in at the TARGET Conference was the initial PhD research of (Rhys) Sam Davies also at the Centre for Exploration Targeting (The University of Western Australia). His work is aiming to link mineral systems theory and endowment and prospectivity analyses, with the existing data sets available at the Sandstone goldfield… Read this post →
At the end of last year, Allan Trench (Professor of Risk and Value at the Centre of Exploration Targeting) presented the early stages of some excellent research on the Australian gold industry at the CET Members Day. I am pleased to be involved in the very periphery of this research and am always happy to give it a little promotion.… Read this post →
