Last week, a publication by colleagues Sam Davies (University of Western Australia & Alto Metals), David Groves (Orebusters), Allan Trench (UWA), and Jon Standing (Model Earth), to which I also contributed was published in the peer reviewed journal 'Ore Geology Reviews'. The paper is entitled "Entering an immature exploration search space: Assessment of the potential orogenic gold endowment of the… Read this post →
Earlier in the year, I was asked to present at the TARGET Conference (focused on exploration geoscience) in Perth, Australia on the subject of the 'business of greenfields exploration' - one of my favourite subjects. A brief abstract and the presentation can be found below, whilst the extended abstract can be found on Researchgate: https://www.slideshare.net/JohnSykes/business-of-greenfields-exploration-sykes-trench-apr-2017-centre-for-exploration-targeting "The minerals exploration sector is… Read this post →
Last year, Allan Trench presented some ideas of ours, about the nature of collaborative, inter-disciplinary applied research to the Deep Exploration Technologies Cooperative Research Centre (DET CRC). The DET CRC is coming to the end of its excellent run of research (primarily in low-cost drilling technologies) helping mineral explorers in Australia tackle deep, under cover exploration, one of the critical… Read this post →
This month an article co-written with Nick Gardiner (Curtin University) on the minerals exploration potential of Myanmar was published in the AusIMM Bulletin. The article is entitled "Is Myanmar about to experience an exploration boom?". The piece covers recent political events, such as the victorious election of Aung San Suu Kyi's National League of Democracy (NLD) party; the history of the country… Read this post →
There's a co-authored article with Allan Trench on today's MiningNewsPremium.net Strictly Boardroom column, entitled "The forgotten economic potential of new mineral discovery". The article draws from some of our experiences in the past few weeks teaching on the International Mining for Development Centre's Mineral Policy and Economics course. Quite simply the article reviews how governments often focus on gaining their… Read this post →
