Catching up on last week's Strictly Boardroom, we looked at an arcane and colloquial example of poor strategic foresight: the demise of Sydney Ferries with the construction of the Sydney Harbour Bridge. The lesson is that not all major events are unforeseeable, however, 'paradigm lock' often means that those forming the strategy often cannot see the ready evidence of big… Read this post →
This week my Chinese visa came through, so that I could attend the Argus Media Metal Pages China Metals Week in Guangzhou, China, between 16-19th November. The conference focuses on the antimony, tungsten and electronic and battery metals markets, such as arsenic, bismuth, cadmium, cobalt, gallium, germanium, indium, lithium, tantalum, tellurium and tin. I will present two papers. One in the plenary… Read this post →
I am scheduled to present at the Third International AusIMM Future Mining Conference between 4-6th November in Sydney. I will present a paper entitled: "An Assessment of the Potential for Transformational Market Growth amongst the Critical Metals" on behalf of the co-authors: Josh Wright, Allan Trench and Paul Miller. The abstract for the presentation is: "A ‘critical metal’ is one that… Read this post →
