Continuing our catch-up on the May Strictly Boardroom articles, that I write with Allan Trench (The University of Western Australia) on MiningNews.net, the next article looks at the different types of mining economy, and what this means for corporate strategy and minerals policy. Borrowing from the World Economic Forum's classification of countries, we break mining economies into three types: factor-driven,… Read this post →
This year I ran a series of scenarios workshops on the future of minerals exploration (and thus the future of mining too) as part of my PhD research at the Centre for Exploration Targeting, The University of Western Australia (UWA). The results are slowly starting to become available. There were three workshops, the second of which involved a group 19… Read this post →
In the winter edition of WA Director, the members' magazine of the Western Australian branch of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD), Allan Trench and I were privileged to be able to submit a piece on our book: "Strictly (Mining) Boardroom - Volume II: A Practitioner's Guide for Next Generation Directors". The article took the format of an interview,… Read this post →
Today's Strictly Boardroom column, with Allan Trench, on MiningNewsPremium.net, looks at the ideal composition of a mining industry board, via a theoretical case-study of a board spill proposal by a major shareholder: "Boardroom spill at Aussie gold miner: Vote now". Readers can choose to stick with the original board, elect the proposed new board members, or some combination. Readers are also… Read this post →
Today Allan Trench and I published an article on "The purpose of exploration and mining company boards" in his Strictly Boardroom column on MiningNewsPremium.net. The article was based on an exercise run in one of our courses on 'Resource Sector Management' sourcing the opinions of Curtin University mineral economics masters and MBA students on what the key roles of mining… Read this post →
