Tracking the trends 2012The top 10 trends mining companies may face in the coming year |
"Tracking the Trends 2012: The top ten trends mining companies may face in the coming year" explains why the way mining companies do business is changing. This annual report targets to provide a clearer map with brand-new insights by giving an in-depth analysis on the top ten issues in the mining industry including:
- The cost of doing business: what goes up does not always come down
- Commodity price chaos: no price stability without great transparency
- The battle to keep profits: government taxes target the mining sector
- Restless stakeholders: the demand for heightened corporate social responsibility
- Labor pains: bridging the precarious talent gap
- Capital project quandaries: project risk rises as the supply/demand gap widens
- Non-traditional financing: new sources of funding require new levels of knowledge
- The big get bigger: risk multiplies as companies diversify
- Volatility is the new stability: planning for the unforeseeable
- Legislative Olympics: countries compete to become the world’s toughest regulators.
Tracking the trends 2012