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 →
Tomorrow I have invited Dr. Nick Gardiner to speak at the Centre for Exploration Targeting Seminar Series on "Myanmar: A Tethyan Mineral System?". Nick has recently joined the Curtin University node of the Centre for Exploration Targeting, from Oxford University. He is a specialist in isotope and metamorphic geology and one of the foremost experts on Myanmar. Some of the presentation will… Read this post →
The paper I co-authored with Nick Gardiner (Centre for Exploration Targeting / Curtin University), Allan Trench (Centre for Exploration Targeting / Curtin University / The University of Western Australia) and Laurence Robb (Oxford University) on "Tin mining in Myanmar: Production and potential" has now been published in the December issue of Resources Policy. It is now available on online for… Read this post →
Today, a paper I co-authored with Nick Gardiner (formerly of Oxford University, now Curtin University), Allan Trench (Curtin University & University of Western Australia) and Laurence Robb (Oxford University) was published in the journal Resources Policy, entitled: "Tin Mining in Myanmar: Production and Potential". We should also acknowledge the help of the International Tin Research Institute (ITRI) in compiling this paper. The… Read this post →
This week my Chinese visa came through, so that I could attend the Argus Media Metal Pages China Metals Week in Guangzhou, China, between 16-19th November. The conference focuses on the antimony, tungsten and electronic and battery metals markets, such as arsenic, bismuth, cadmium, cobalt, gallium, germanium, indium, lithium, tantalum, tellurium and tin. I will present two papers. One in the plenary… Read this post →
