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We are very pleased to announce that Dr Steve Rowins has accepted the position of Prof. of Mineral Geoscience & CET Director. Steve will commence his new position on 1 March 2018. .

The Structural Geology Training course which is part of the WAXI training programme was held in Yamoussoukro, Ivory Coast, from the 15 to 19 May 2017 (back to basics) and on the Newmont Akyem mine site in Ghana from the 22 to 26 May 2017 (advanced).

At this year's PDAC Conference in Toronto, CET PhD student Dave Stevenson, presented an abstract entitled "The impact of the energy transition on specialty metals and minerals". The paper was co-authored with CET student John Sykes, CET Professor Allan Trench, industry consultant Josh Wright, CET student Rhys (Sam) Davies, and UWA MBA student Aaron Dixon.

CET PhD student John Sykes, CET Professor Allan Trench, and industry consultant Josh Wright, have received the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (IOM3) Mann Redmayne Medal for their paper “Discovery, supply and demand: From metals of antiquity to critical metals”.

The World Bank Group (WBG) and the Centre for Exploration Targeting (CET) have recently published a comprehensive technical guidebook targeted to mining tax professionals entitled “Transfer Pricing in Mining with Focus on Africa: A Reference Guide for Practitioners”. This publication and a related less technical Briefing Note, targeted at uninitiated stakeholders (e.g. politicians, industry executives, media, NGOs etc.), are the outputs of an extensive program of research in mining taxation designed to strengthen policy formulation and tax administration and collection frameworks in developing countries, particularly in Africa

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A presentation entitled "The energy transition: Lessons for explorers, miners and moneyers" made by CET Student John Sykes at Mines and Money, London in November 2016 is now available to download through the CET website. The presentation was co-authored with CET Professor Allan Trench and geological consultant Josh Wright. The presentation looks at which minor metals have the most potential to benefit from the renewable energy transition.