Last week my Strictly Boardroom co-author and PhD supervisor, Allan Trench of UWA, along with Tim Munday of CSIRO were on the ABC Nightlife radio show discussing mineral resources and the challenges faced by the exploration and mining sector, including the helium sector! You can listen to the podcast here. It is one of the few examples of an in-depth… Read this post →
Last year I presented a keynote at the Argus Media-Metal Pages China Metals Week in Guangzhou, entitled "Which markets are the future stars of the 'critical metals' industry?" The presentation looks at which of the critical metals, those defined as small important metal markets with supply constraints, have the potential to outgrow their current constraints and become large, industrial metals… Read this post →
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 →
In September, I was proud to present a plenary presentation for the Society of Economic Geologists conference, based on my PhD research, entitled "Finding the Copper Mine of the 21st Century: Conceptual exploration targeting for hypothetical copper reserves". The presentation considers the various views of the future of the copper mining industry which seem to assume that it will be… Read this post →
Yesterday I presented at the AusIMM New Leaders Conference in Perth, Australia, on the subject of my PhD research: Finding the copper mine of tomorrow: Exploration targeting for copper reserves, not resources. Below is my abstract. The presentation can be found here: http://www.slideshare.net/JohnSykes/finding-the-copper-mine-of-tomorrow-sykes-aug-2014-ausimm-new-leaders-conference Copper is an important component of the modern economy, however, total copper “resources”, and both the size and… Read this post →
