Earlier in the year I was privileged to be asked by the University of Western Australia Business School to present to a group of visiting MBA students from the Institute of Technology in Bandung, Indonesia. The talk had similar content to one given earlier in the year to students from the University of Alberta, however, with a bit more of… 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 →
This month's edition of RESOURCESTOCKS includes the annual 'Top 100' compiled by Allan Trench and myself. The list focuses on seeking out the length and breadth of variety available for mining and petroleum investors on the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX). According to portfolio theory investors should focus on diversification, so this list surveys the range of commodities, geographic locations and… 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 →
