At the end of last year, Allan Trench (Professor of Risk and Value at the Centre of Exploration Targeting) presented the early stages of some excellent research on the Australian gold industry at the CET Members Day. I am pleased to be involved in the very periphery of this research and am always happy to give it a little promotion.… Read this post →
Earlier in the year, I had the pleasure to be involved in some fascinating research that is of genuine use to the mining industry. The work investigated the linkage between economic geology and mine costs in gold mining in Australian and New Zealand, i.e. what are the geological characteristics that lead to lower or higher mining costs across the industry… Read this post →
This weeks Strictly Boardroom column is co-authored by Sam Ulrich, Principal Consultant Geologist at Ravensgate Mining Industry Consultants, and now a PhD student at the Centre for Exploration Targeting, The University of Western Australia. Sam will be researching the link between gold mining costs and the geological characteristics of gold deposits. Previous research has highlighted that the link between costs and… Read this post →
Last year, I helped Allan Trench put together a presentation on mining strategy, which he presented at the Wrays Resource Investment Group Seminar in West Perth, Australia. The presentation was entitled "Mining sector strategies for the future - Preparing for the next boom" and was a general review of the state of strategy in the mining sector and a couple… Read this post →
A couple of month's ago my PhD supervisor, Allan Trench, presented at the RIU Explorers Conference in Fremantle, on the subject: "Gold Grades and Gold Costs: Exploding the High-Grade Myth". The presentation was based on work by student Matt Kanakis, so really credit should go to him. It's a nice, simple study, that provides some good initial evidence, that at… Read this post →
