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‘Black Swans’ in tin and tantalum mining

- By: John P Sykes
Posted in: Blog, Commodities, Conferences, Mineral Economics, Publications

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Last November I presented "Blacks Swans in tin and tantalum mining and their implications for electronics manufacturers" to the 'Electronic and Battery Metals' session of the Argus Media-Metal Pages China Metals Week, in Guangzhou. The efforts of Nick Gardiner (Curtin University), Allan Trench (University of Western Australia), Laurence Robb (Oxford University), Peter Kettle (ITRI), Tom Mulqueen (ITRI) and Cui Lin (ITRI) should also…
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Scheduled to present at Argus Media China Metals Week on critical metals

- By: John P Sykes
Posted in: Blog, Commodities, Conferences, Mineral Economics, Recommended

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This week my Chinese visa came through, so that I could attend the Argus Media Metal Pages China Metals Week in Guangzhou, China, between 16-19th November. The conference focuses on the antimony, tungsten and electronic and battery metals markets, such as arsenic, bismuth, cadmium, cobalt, gallium, germanium, indium, lithium, tantalum, tellurium and tin. I will present two papers. One in the plenary…
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Myanmar: The Black Swan of Global Tin

- By: John P Sykes
Posted in: Blog, Commodities, Conferences, Mineral Economics, Mineral Policy, Mining, Publications, Recommended

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Today I uploaded a presentation entitled "Myanmar: The Black Swan of Global Tin", which I co-authored with Nick Gardiner of Oxford University, and which was presented by Nick at the ITRI International Tin Forum, Shanghai, China, in May this year. Allan Trench of Curtin University and the University of Western Australia and Cui Lin of ITRI also assisted with the research. The presentation…
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Investment needed to boost tin supply (Australian Resources & Investment)

- By: John P Sykes
Posted in: Commodities, Exploration, Mining, Publications, Recommended

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In the same December edition of Australian Resources and Investment as my "The future of rare earths mine project development" article, Peter Kettle of ITRI has an article on the tin industry entitled "Investment needed to boost tin supply". The article is largely based on two recent reports by ITRI: Tin Industry Review 2014 (to which Greenfields contributed some analysis)…
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Uncertainty in tin and tantalum mining

- By: John P Sykes
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Today I will be attending the last leg of ITRI Tin Explorers and Developers Australian Tour 2014, at the offices of Metals X in Perth. As such it seems a good opportunity to catch up with the backlog of presentations and papers I need to upload to the website. Back in September, as well as presenting a plenary talk on the Economic History…
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