Earlier this year, we were proud to help University of Western Australia MBA student, Laurent Barrere present his coursework on Fortescue Mining Group (FMG) and Western Australian (WA) iron ore, as a paper at the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (AusIMM) Iron Ore Conference in Perth. Although locally focused the research is an excellent study on the challenges of… Read this post →
In Allan Trench's Strictly Boardroom column on MiningNewsPremium.net today, I have helped him co-author an article entitled "The pleasure and pain of sexy metals". The article looks at the challenges in developing some of the so-called 'sexy metals' such as bismuth, cobalt, graphite, lithium, niobium, phosphate, potash, radium, rare earths, sulphuric acid, tantalum, tungsten, uranium and vanadium (admittedly some of these are… Read this post →
Yesterday, a co-authored article I did with Allan Trench for his Strictly Boardroom column was published on MiningNewsPremium.net, entitled "Beyond China - why some commodities are profitable (and others not)". The article is available to subscribers of MiningNewsPremium.net. The article is a reminder to industry strategists and mineral economists that there are more ways to profit in the mining industry than high… Read this post →
