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Selling the rare earths story

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

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It has been hard not to notice the recent furore over “rare earth elements”. China provides over 90% of the mined supply of these elements, and for some elements, all of the world’s supply. This has worried governments and consumers in North America, Europe and non-Chinese Asia. A scramble to develop rare earth mines outside China has begun and miners,…
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Bullish at the ITRI Tin Conference

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

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Greenfields recently spent the week in the junior mining hub of Vancouver. We were there to present the results of a tin mine cost modelling exercise to the board of ITRI, the tin industry body, and to attend ITRI’s International Tin Conference. The conference left us with multiple reasons to be bullish about tin. Plenty of positives for tin The…
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