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The pleasure and pain of sexy metals

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

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In Allan Trench's Strictly Boardroom column on MiningNewsPremium.net today, I have helped him co-author an article entitled "The pleasure and pain of sexy metals". The article looks at the challenges in developing some of the so-called 'sexy metals' such as bismuth, cobalt, graphite, lithium, niobium, phosphate, potash, radium, rare earths, sulphuric acid, tantalum, tungsten, uranium and vanadium (admittedly some of these are…
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Non-technical Risks and Their Impact on Mining

- By: John P Sykes
Posted in: Blog, Exploration, Mining, PhD, Publications, Recommended, Technical Paper Reviews

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I have a co-authored paper with my PhD supervisors Allan Trench and Daniel Packey out today. It is entitled "Non-technical Risks and Their Impact on Mining" and is in the AusIMM Monograph 30 on Mineral Resource and Ore Reserve Estimation. It is in Chapter 7: Risk in Resource and Reserve Estimation. The abstract is below: “Country Risk”, including the threat of…
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