Can a Steel Beam Stay a Steel Beam? Gareth Byatt is an engineer who has spent around twenty years on construction and property projects across...
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Helen Woodcock – Why Aren’t We Recycling Smart Meters
What Happens to a Smart Meter After It Leaves Your Wall? Helen Woodcock came to sustainability through risk management, and a refusal to accept that...
Peter Harvey – Mine Closure and the True Cost of Metals
Mine closure is one of the biggest unsolved challenges in responsible mining, and Peter Harvey has spent the last seven years at the heart of...
Tim Law – Why Tax Is The Most Powerful Word In Mining
Tim Law is a chartered accountant and tax expert who spent nearly two decades in corporate tax teams, twelve of them inside a major mining...
Michael Barron – The Role of Raw Materials in the Middle East
Gas, The Strait of Hormuz and the Raw Materials Geopolitical Landscape of the Middle East Michael Barron is a Middle East political risk specialist who...
David Strang – Challenging Everything the Industry Takes for Granted
David Strang has had an unusual route into mining leadership. A Glaswegian raised in a South African mining town, he studied applied earth sciences at...
Melody McNeil – Above Ground First, What Mining Can Learn From International Development
Melody McNeil is an agriculture and natural resource economist who has spent decades working with USAID and Catholic Relief Services across East and Central Africa,...
John Thompson – Describe, Don’t Quantify – A Career Across Exploration and Research
John Thompson is a geoscientist who spent five decades deliberately moving between industry and academia. After studying geology at Oxford, he went on to explore...
Anne Thompson – A Geologist’s Career At The Edge of Certainty
Anne Thompson is a geologist, mineralogist, and self-described snake that sheds its skin. Over four decades she has worked as an exploration field geologist in...
Caroline Tiddy – “If we don’t learn how to adopt and adapt, we’ll miss the game‑changers”
In this episode, we sit down with Professor Caroline Tiddy, Chief Scientific Officer at MinEx CRC and Associate Professor of Geosciences at Adelaide University. From her beginnings in rural...