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Discovery Day 2015: How mineral deposits are really discovered!

- By: John P Sykes
Posted in: Blog, Conferences, Exploration, PhD, Recommended

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This year, Allan Trench of the Centre for Exploration Targeting is hosting Discovery Day on Tuesday 24th February at the Esplanade Hotel in Fremantle. This is my favourite annual seminar as it includes a host of presenters who have actually discovered mineral deposits, discussing the reality of how it happened, including what role serendipity played. Perspectives comes from geology, geochemistry,…
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Mining Journal Gold Seminar raises political risk worries

- By: John P Sykes
Posted in: Blog, Commodities, Conferences, Exploration, Mining, Travel

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London's mining scene gathered in force at the Mining Journal's Gold Day. However, we left with concerns about the extent to which gold prices are being supported by investors, and about increasing political risk for gold miners, which is reducing some miners' leverage to the booming gold price. Investor-supported gold Just how much the current high gold price has been…
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