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… Read this post →
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… Read this post →
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… Read this post →
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)… Read this post →
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… Read this post →
