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 →
Minerals exploration guru, Jon Hronsky wrote to myself and a number of other industry professionals today, to remind us that this day marks the 50th anniversary since Western Mining Corporation (WMC) intersected nickel sulphides in drill hole KD1 at the Lunnon deposit in Western Australia's gold fields. This would subsequently become the Kambalda nickel region (after which Kambalda-type nickel deposits are… Read this post →
"Why should we maintain exploration expenditure ‘through the cycle’? Why would we want to find more supply when markets are weak? Find out the answer with my and Allan Trench's article in the 'Strictly Boardroom column of MiningNewsPremium.net which came out on Monday. Read this post →
In a recent in depth article we discussed “What’s hot, what’s not and why” in the commodities world, based on a presentation by CRU Group at the ITRI International Tin Conference last month. Looking at the medium term prospects for a number of commodities, the article concluded that for a commodity to be “hot” with strong positive price fundamentals it… Read this post →
