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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.

An article entitled "Is your company capable of surviving a commodities bust?" and written by CET PhD student John Sykes features in the latest issue of Resource Global Network magazine.

CET PhD student John Sykes and CET Professor Allan Trench have won the AusIMM Best Paper Award for 2017 for their paper: "Using scenarios to investigate the long-term future of copper mining and guide exploration targeting strategies" which was presented at the International Mine Management Conference in Brisbane in September 2016.

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 related policy formulation and administrative and collection frameworks in developing countries, particularly in Africa.

CET Adjunct Senior Research Fellow Geoff Batt has been awarded the prestigious BHP Billiton Scholarship for 2017 to undertake the Full-time Intensive MBA program in the UWA Business School.