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Key performance indicators – an exercise in futility?

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

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This week's Strictly Boardroom on MiningNewsPremium.net is on key performance indicators and the lessons we can learn from Communist booksellers. Intrigued? The article is available to subscribers online here. For keen followers of the Strictly Boardroom column, our new book “Strictly (Mining) Boardroom Volume II: A Practitioners Guide for Next Generation Directors” is out now and available as a hard…
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Elements of Power by David Abraham: Invaluable intro to the ‘critical metals’

- By: John P Sykes
Posted in: Blog, Book Reviews, Commodities, Exploration, Mineral Economics, Mineral Policy, Mining, Recommended

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Book Review: The Elements of Power: Gadgets, Guns, and the Struggle for a Sustainable Future in the Rare Metal Age By David S. Abraham Amongst the flurry of books over the last few years focusing on the geopolitics of metals and mining, and in particular the so-called ‘critical metals’ David Abraham’s effort “The Elements of Power” promises a less-hyperbolic and…
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What’s hot, what’s not and why?

- By: John P Sykes
Posted in: Blog, Commodities, Conferences, Mining, Travel

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At the recent ITRI International Tin Conference, metals and mining consultancy CRU Group presented an update of its "Commodity Price Climate Change" forecast. This has nothing to do with which commodities would benefit from an anthropogenically warmed planet (we'll cover that another day), but is a way of summarising their views of whether commodity price outlooks will be “hot”, “warm”,…
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