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'… Read this post →
Last week I finally passed the candidacy stage of my PhD, which marks the first completed step on my PhD research journey. My PhD is entitled "Finding the Copper Mine of Tomorrow: Exploration Targeting for Copper Mines not Resources, and the abstract from my PhD candidacy proposal is: Copper is an important component of the modern economy, however, total copper “resources”,… Read this post →
I have a co-authored paper with my PhD supervisors Allan Trench and Daniel Packey out today. It is entitled "Non-technical Risks and Their Impact on Mining" and is in the AusIMM Monograph 30 on Mineral Resource and Ore Reserve Estimation. It is in Chapter 7: Risk in Resource and Reserve Estimation. The abstract is below: “Country Risk”, including the threat of… Read this post →
Spurred on my Warren Buffett's comments that all the world's mined gold could fit in a 20m cube, the BBC has investigated the issue on its flagship statistics programme: More or Less. Although they essentially conclude that all the numbers are indeterminable, its an interesting and fun listen, that gets my recommendation. Never one to waste some journalistic talent the… Read this post →
