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Allan Trench discussing mineral resources on ABC Radio

- By: John P Sykes
Posted in: Blog, Exploration, Media, Mining

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Last week my Strictly Boardroom co-author and PhD supervisor, Allan Trench of UWA, along with Tim Munday of CSIRO were on the ABC Nightlife radio show discussing mineral resources and the challenges faced by the exploration and mining sector, including the helium sector! You can listen to the podcast here. It is one of the few examples of an in-depth…
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Influencing exploration choices in copper at a strategic level (The Hollywood Edition)

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

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At the end of last year I did a special presentation on my PhD research for the Centre for Exploration Targeting (Curtin University & University of Western Australia) entitled "Influencing exploration choices in copper at a strategic level" and included below. The presentation takes a Hollywood theme using recent Hollywood dystopian films 'The Hunger Games', 'WALL-E', 'Iron Man 2', 'Avatar'…
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Non-technical risks and their impact on the mining industry

- By: John P Sykes
Posted in: Blog, Commodities, Mining, Publications, Recommended

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Continuing the catch up on presentations made last year, below is one on "Non-technical risks and their impact on the mining industry" made at the AusIMM Monograph 30 (Mineral Resource and Ore Reserve Estimation) Roadshow. The presentation was based on a paper written with Allan Trench and Dan Packey for the AusIMM Monograph 30, which was released in early 2014.…
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Uncertainty in tin and tantalum mining

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

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Today I will be attending the last leg of ITRI Tin Explorers and Developers Australian Tour 2014, at the offices of Metals X in Perth. As such it seems a good opportunity to catch up with the backlog of presentations and papers I need to upload to the website. Back in September, as well as presenting a plenary talk on the Economic History…
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PRESS RELEASE: Good and bad news on tin project pipeline!

- By: John P Sykes
Posted in: Blog, Commodities, Exploration, Mining, Publications, Recommended

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ITRI (formerly the International Tin Research Institute) and Greenfields Research have recently completed a new report on the tin mine project pipeline, entitled "New Tin Supply". A Press Release about the report was released by ITRI on 2nd October. A copy can be found on the ITRI website, my slideshare and is repeated in full below. A brochure for the…
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