Continuing our catch up on last year's Strictly Boardroom articles in September we looked at the proposed gold mine royalty increase by the Western Australian government. Whilst, obviously the local gold industry was not happy, and in the end lobbied successfully for the proposal to be dropped, we (alongside gold expert Sam Ulrich) thought the proposal a good opportunity for… Read this post →
At the end of last year, Allan Trench (Professor of Risk and Value at the Centre of Exploration Targeting) presented the early stages of some excellent research on the Australian gold industry at the CET Members Day. I am pleased to be involved in the very periphery of this research and am always happy to give it a little promotion.… Read this post →
Earlier in the year, I had the pleasure to be involved in some fascinating research that is of genuine use to the mining industry. The work investigated the linkage between economic geology and mine costs in gold mining in Australian and New Zealand, i.e. what are the geological characteristics that lead to lower or higher mining costs across the industry… Read this post →
This weeks Strictly Boardroom column is co-authored by Sam Ulrich, Principal Consultant Geologist at Ravensgate Mining Industry Consultants, and now a PhD student at the Centre for Exploration Targeting, The University of Western Australia. Sam will be researching the link between gold mining costs and the geological characteristics of gold deposits. Previous research has highlighted that the link between costs and… Read this post →
