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Cost reductions as a response to the end of the commodity price boom
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The recent publication of the 3rd edition of ICMM’s The Role of Mining in National Economies (hereafter RoMiNE3) provides us with the welcome biennial...

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Lower exploration spending – another response to the end of the commodity price boom
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My previous blog, which you can read here , commented on the manner in which mining companies had been able to respond to the recent decline in metals...

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Peru: employment and inequality trends

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Mining and economic development

This paper investigates China’s influence on local economic development in 37 African countries between 1997 and 2007. We compare the average changes in economic growth, migration, spatial inequality, and welfare of mineral-rich districts, both prior...

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