Tracking the trends 2012 |
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- November 2011
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Tracking the trends 2012- Area: Mining and metals
Background
It could be argued that the burning issues facing the mining industry tend to remain largely unchanged over time. While this may be factually correct, it fails to take into account the extent to which shifting social, economic and political trends affect the mining sector. Looked at in isolation, each challenge may seem familiar. Looked at through a macroeconomic and geopolitical lens, however, it becomes clear that the difficulties afflicting the industry are rapidly reaching an unprecedented level of extremity.
The themes covered in this report are:
- The cost of doing business
- Commodity price chaos
- The battle to keep profits
- Restless stakeholders
- Labour pains
- Capital project quandaries
- Non-traditional financing
- The big get bigger
- Volatility is the new stability
- Legislative Olympics
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