Entering Complex Concave Metal Markets

Sharing the benefits: enhancing Australia’s global leadership in the mining value chain

This report examines the globalisation of the Australian mining industry, which is often not well understood amongst commentators and policy-makers. The authors find that Australian mining has grown well beyond Australia’s borders, powered by world-leading knowledge and t...

Who will make the next Greenfields Discovery

This deliberately provocative question was posed to a panel of participants at the recent AMIRA Exploration Managers conference. It prompted me to go away and interrogate the excellent the SNL Metals & Mining database and reports on recent exploration discoveries1 & 2....

How to Improve Mining Tax Administration and Collection Frameworks

This sourcebook focuses on mineral royalties and on other taxation measures that are specific to mining activities, with particular emphasis on imposts of common application in most developing countries, which may create challenges in their administration.

The legisla...

How to Improve Mining Tax Administration and Collection Frameworks

By Pietro Guj, Boubacar Bocoum, James Limerick, Murray Meaton, and Bryan Maybee
April 2013

This sourcebook focuses on mineral royalties and on other taxation measures that
are specific to mining activities, with particular emphasis on imposts of common...

Applied Energy Power Investment

Greenhouse gas (GHG) intensive fuels are currently a major input into the Australian electricity sector. Accordingly, climate change mitigation policies represent a systematic risk to investment in electricity generation assets. Although the Australian government introduced car...

Taking Aim at Risk

"At last year's London Mines and Money, the cold atmosphere handing over the city's mining sector was reported by RESOURCESTOCK as being as grim as the weather........"

Anatomy of a Bear Market

New research from the Centre for Exploration Targeting indicates that the struggling Australian minerals IPO market may be a long-term problem for the mining industry. This raises questions about where the world will source its ever-growing requirements for minerals.

2012 CET Annual Review

In this document we briefly summarise the tremendous success that CET has enjoyed over the 7 years since its inception, and how we are well positioned to meet the future needs of society through fundamental research and its application to the minerals industry.

The statistics of the rare earths industry

Rare earths are essential to green technologies, but China supplies 98% of them. Some have risen in price 200-fold – by 20 000% – in a year. Is China holding the world to ransom? A World Trade Organisation case is brewing. Rare earths are not rare, say Mark Tyrer an...