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The current investment landscape for mining, exploration and mineral sands

- By: John P Sykes
Posted in: Blog, Commodities, Conferences, Exploration, Future, Management, Mineral Economics, Mining, PhD, Publications, Strategy

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Lats week, I was invited to speak on "The current investment landscape for mining, exploration and mineral sands" at the 19th Australian Mineral Sands Conference here in Perth. The presentation explored three broad, global trends and their high-level impact on mining and exploration, with some further specific thoughts on mineral sands, in line with the conference theme. The three trends…
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The current investment climate for mining, exploration and mineral sands

- By: John P Sykes
Posted in: Blog, Conferences, Exploration, Mining, PhD

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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.
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Miners have culture too: Which corporate culture is your firm?

- By: John P Sykes
Posted in: Blog, Management, Media, Mining, Publications

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Last November, we published a Strictly Boardroom article on 'corporate culture' as part of a wider self-lead study of a subject which keeps popping up in our business and academic lives. As a starting point, before jumping into the serious reading, we reflected on some of the organisational cultures we'd come across in the minerals industry and academia: Egocentric -…
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Six reasons Aussies don’t do minerals PhDs

- By: John P Sykes
Posted in: Blog, Exploration, Management, Media, Mining, PhD, Publications, Research

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Last October in the Strictly Boardroom column we considered the problem of why more Australian's don't do minerals industry PhDs, with a particular focus on geoscience in this case. Though initially this may seem a somewhat niche question, many key figures in the domestic exploration industry are PhDs (though you may not realise it). There is more to this than…
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Will graphite explorers benefit from the renewable energy transition?

- By: John P Sykes
Posted in: Blog, Commodities, Conferences, Exploration, Future, Mineral Economics, Mining, PhD, Publications, Research, Strategy

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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…
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