Lats week, I was invited to speak on "The current investment landscape for mining, exploration and mineral sands" at the 19th Australian Mineral Sands Conference here in Perth. The presentation explored three broad, global trends and their high-level impact on mining and exploration, with some further specific thoughts on mineral sands, in line with the conference theme. The three trends… Read this post →
Earlier in the year, in our Strictly Boardroom column, we considered alternatives to the challenge of vertical integration in the minerals industry. In some commodity industries, such as gold, copper, and nickel sulphides, the majority of the value of the final 'metal' product flows back through to the miner - with smelters, refiners, traders and others further downstream making thin… Read this post →
Late last year we published a Strictly Boardroom article on battery metals, discussing the different battery systems - lead, lithium, nickel, zinc and emerging ones - and which metals are involved in them, with the aim of providing a little clarity on the current 'battery metal' boom. The article is entitled "Battery metals: From aluminium to zinc" and is available… Read this post →
Welcome to 2018. Last year was a busy year and this year already looks like it will be another busy one. As such, I'd like to finish posting the various presentations, papers and articles from last year that are, as yet, unmentioned on this website, as soon as possible. In November last year, I was pleased to present the keynote… Read this post →
Earlier this year I was invited to speak at one of the side seminars running at the Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) Conference - probably the world's largest mining conference - on the subject of specialty metals and minerals. Alas, I was unable to attend but my friend and colleague, Dave Stevenson (then Centre for Exploration Targeting* now… Read this post →
