Earlier this year, I was privileged to present at the Australian Institute of Geoscientists (AIG) Lithium and Graphite Seminar, on the subject of "Entering complex concave metal markets: Lessons from the previous lithium and rare earths booms for the current lithium and graphite booms" with co-authors Allan Trench (University of Western Australia - UWA), Matthew Greentree (SRK Consulting), Sam Davies… Read this post →
This week, a pair of peer-reviewed articles to which I contributed were published in the Applied Earth Science journal of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (IOM3) and the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (AusIMM). The articles are part of a continuing thematic issue on mineral economics and critical minerals. The first, published online in January and discussed… 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 →
A couple of weeks ago, an article I co-authored was published online entitled "Discovery, supply and demand: From Metals of Antiquity to critical metals". The article was co-authored with Josh Wright (Rowton Consolidated) and Allan Trench (The University of Western Australia) and has been published in the scholarly journal 'Applied Earth Science'. The journal is the earth sciences publication of the UK-based Institute of Materials,… Read this post →