Last September, my colleague Josh Wright at Rowton Ltd., presented some work done with myself and Allan Trench on "The challenges of ex-China Rare Earth Mine Development (and how to overcome them)" at the Argus Media Rare Earths Conference in Hangzhou, China. The presentation analysed the components of a good strategy for rare earths mine project development including funding options,… Read this post →
Today's Strictly Boardroom article on MiningNewsPremium.net, with Allan Trench is on mine project evaluation practice and entitled: "2020 mining project evaluation: Take me to church". It is generally accepted that mine project evaluation is a source of concern in the industry. There are several 'churches' of thinking about how it can be improved: the 'Temperance Movement' takes a regulatory approach,… Read this post →
Last month, Allan Trench presented an abstract at the Society of Economic Geologists (SEG) Conference in Hobart, Australia, that I helped contribute to, entitled: "Minerals Sector Value and Risk in 4D: Discovery to Dismantling". The paper summarised our thoughts on how technical risk, corporate risk and non-technical combine into a complex composite risk profile over the life of a mine project and mine.… 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 →
In this month's edition of Australian Resources and Investment magazine there is an article I have written on 'The future of rare earth mine project development' based on my presentation at the Metal Pages Rare Earths Conference earlier in the year. The article reviews the challenges Australia's three longest established rare earths projects (Lynas' Mt Weld, Arafrura Resources' Nolans and… Read this post →
