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October 18, 2007

Mining and E & D: The New Paradigm

David J. Hall

“Only those willing to risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go”

T.S. Eliot

In the manufacturing business companies buy raw materials from suppliers, and then assemble these materials into cars, shoes, fridges etc. The management of this process has been copiously studied and written about.  Yet without the basic raw materials – the fundamental building blocks for many industries there would be nothing to write about – back to the Stone Age! The supply of such critical raw materials i.e. copper, zinc, nickel, lead as well as gold and silver is the domain of the...