I'm speaking at the 19th Annual Australian Mineral Sands Conference on 21–22 March in Perth, WA, on “The current investment climate for mining, exploration and mineral sands." I'll be presenting some of my PhD work on the intersection of technology, globalisation, sustainable development and the mining industry, More information on the conference is available here. Read this post →
Last November, to assist with the MBA course at UWA we were teaching on 'Strategic Analysis and Consulting' we prepared an A to Z of 'must-know' subjects in the area of strategy and management in the minerals sector. How many do you know? Analysis, Alliances and Adhocracy; Behavioural economics, Biases and heuristics, the Boston Box (or the growth-share matrix), Big… Read this post →
The final presentation I made in 2017 was at Mines and Money in London, and the first on behalf of Richard Schodde and MinEx Consulting. Many of the companies and analysts at the conference were focused on the battery metals industry. In line with this, I was invited to give an overview of the graphite industry, its role in the… Read this post →
In November last year I presented an overview of my PhD research and 'journey' at the school postgraduate symposium. The unofficial title was "My PhD Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Mining". The more formal title for my PhD research is "Using scenario planning to improve the integration of geological, technical, economic, environmental, geopolitical, and socio-political factors… Read this post →
Welcome to 2018. Last year was a busy year and this year already looks like it will be another busy one. As such, I'd like to finish posting the various presentations, papers and articles from last year that are, as yet, unmentioned on this website, as soon as possible. In November last year, I was pleased to present the keynote… Read this post →
