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- 01 Aug
Most Disadvantageous Lottery in the World
- Aug 01, 2017
- IanRunge
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- Batteries, Central Banks, China, Coal, Commodity Prices, Copper, GFC, Iron Ore, Money Supply, Oil Shale, Reserves, Resources, Technology
Noosa Mining and Exploration Conference, 2017. According to Adam Smith – the father of Economics, and obviously no fan of mining – the search after new mines is “perhaps the most disadvantageous lottery in the world.” (from “The Wealth of […]
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- 12 Apr
Mining Economics and Technology
- Apr 12, 2017
- IanRunge
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- Commodity Prices, computer, Economics, mine planning, Reserves, Technology
Excerpt from a presentation to the International Mining Congress and Exhibition of Turkey, April 2017 Technology allows things to be done that were previously not possible to do. For example: the analysis of the complex interaction between multiple trucks and […]
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- 27 Mar
The Knowledge Problem
- Mar 27, 2017
- IanRunge
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- information, knowledge, mine planning, Technology
Excerpt from the paper: Economics, Technological Change, and the Knowledge Problem. Faster computers allow us to process more data, and to carry out more analyses than has been possible up until now. But every problem to be solved includes […]
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