Modern Management in the Global Mining Industry
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Chapter 1. Introduction Chapter 2. Commodity Price Forecasting Chapter 3. Recycling Chapter 4. The Marketing of Commodities Chapter 5. The Role of Commodity Exchanges in Pricing Chapter 6. Price Risk Management Chapter 7. Shareholder Value Chapter 8. Measuring mine production costs Chapter 9. Performance Improvement and Capital Productivity Chapter 10. Risk and the Cost of Capital Chapter 11. The Mining Cycle Chapter 12. The Myths and Realities of Resource Depletion Chapter 13. The Environment - Cost or Constraint? Chapter 14. Unfinished business
‘Robin Adams was one of the great mineral economists of our times. Drawing on his many years as an industry consultant and his strong knowledge of economics and business administration, Robin has, with the help of Christopher Gilbert and Christopher Stobart, given us a book that provides a wealth of information on mineral commodity markets. Anyone striving to understand the behavior of mineral commodity markets and gain an insight into the mining industry should read this book.’
‘This book is a must read if you are planning a career in the minerals industry. Its author, Robin G Adams, with more than 40 years’ experience at CRU, one of the world’s most prominent consulting firms in the field, exhibits mastery in disentangling the intricacies of this important industry to the lay reader. Complex issues like metal price formation, measurement of production costs, or the myths of resource depletion are straightened out so as to be accessible even to my grandkids, yet with no loss of realism. I am full of admiration.’
‘Robin understood the mining industry better than most of those working in it. In these pages, he tells, with characteristic clarity and vigour, of his personal journey to uncover the economics of the mining industry, to establish where it differs from other industries, and to develop the intellectual tools required to pinpoint where value can be found and how it can be extracted in an effective and responsible fashion.’
The late Adams, a minerals economist and consultant to mining companies, discusses the efficient organization of the mining industry. He uses examples of various minerals used in the economy to discuss the problem of commodity price risk, commodity marketing and the role of commodity exchanges, and managing price risk; the idea that the only viable business strategy is to build or acquire low-cost operations and how this conflicts with modern concepts of business strategy, the basics of value-based management used by mining companies, techniques for companies to reorient themselves from a narrow focus on the cost of production to a broader focus on delivering value, and specific techniques like benchmarking and outsourcing and their pitfalls; and mine development, the myths and realities of resource depletion, the environmental impact, and its management.