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Evaluating Fiscal Attractiveness for Gold Mine Development: Africa vs South America

- By: John P Sykes
Posted in: Blog, Mineral Economics, Mineral Policy, Mining, Publications, Recommended, Technical Paper Reviews

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Last year I helped contribute to some research for the International Mining for Development Centre (IM4DC) on "Evaluating the Attractiveness of Fiscal Regimes for New Gold Developments: African and South American Peer Country Comparisons" with Allan Trench (The University of Western Australia), Chris Gemell (Red Onyx Consulting), Michael Curtis (RISC) and Tony Venables (Independent Geologist). Particular credit goes to Chris…
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The Bottom Billion by Paul Collier: Clear, concise, informative & evidence-based

- By: John P Sykes
Posted in: Blog, Book Reviews, Exploration, Mineral Economics, Mining

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I'm currently teaching, with Allan Trench, on the International Mining for Development Centre's (IM4DC) Minerals Policy and Economics course. For our sessions we use Prof. Paul Collier's work as a framework for how to develop an economy using mineral resources. I recently posted the review below on Amazon and Goodreads about his book "The Bottom Billion". I thought I'd share it…
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Three rules to build a resources economy (MiningNewsPremium.net)

- By: John P Sykes
Posted in: Blog, Mineral Economics, Mining

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This week I will be assisting Allan Trench, teaching on the International Mining for Development Centre (IM4DC) Mineral Economics and Policy course. An important topic, no doubt. As part of this we've started gathering some ideas on content. We published a short article on the "Three rules to build a resources economy" in Allan's Strictly Boardroom column on MiningNewsPremium.net. Briefly…
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