RFC Ambrian executive, Chris Vinson notes that with the right conditions “start and scale-up businesses can deliver significant contributions to the industry”. Chris participated in the Mining Beacon webinar held in September 2019 and observed, there were inherent challenges to finding the right partnerships “If you are a venture capital firm, you have return thresholds to meet” In the Australian…
Reflecting on the Copper Price Cycle – How Good Are Consensus Forecast Where we are in the commodity price cycle is one of the most often discussed and relevant questions for the industry and in this Issue of The Alchemist we consider the copper price movements since January 2016 in order to evaluate the usefulness of the methodology outlined in…
This is the sixth and final document by RFC Ambrian in our recent series of reports on innovation and new technology in the mining industry. In this report we attempt to capture some of the projects being implemented in the mineral exploration field, although in this area, as in some other areas, we find that much of today’s innovation is…
If you missed or want to revisit the IMARC Mining Beacon webinar from 01 October, which discussed the mining tech start-up space and the challenges being faced, and innovative solutions being delivered, please follow this link: How can the mining industry unlock the hidden value of start-ups? The webinar featured a panel of industry experts, Chris Vinson RFC Ambrian, Nick…
This is the fifth report in a series of reports that are being published by RFC Ambrian on new technology and innovation. In this report we focus on mineral processing and water treatment. We have included water treatment with mineral processing because the biggest consumer of water on any mine site is the mineral processing plant and the single biggest opportunity…
