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The mining industry faces distinct challenges. Mines have long lives, companies have little control over the prices at which they sell, prices are volatile, and the environmental impacts of mining are often not well managed. Despite this, the mining industry has received relatively little attention from neither economists nor the wider business community. There is a need to address the unique management challenges raised by this globally important industry.
Modern Management in the Global Mining Industry addresses the economics of mining industries and the management of global mining companies in a manner which is both practical and guided by economic and management theory. Leading with the assertion that mining generates substantial benefits for all its stakeholders provided it is well-managed, and that this includes management of environmental impacts, the book argues that mining companies should move to seeing environmental preservation and sustenance of local communities as an objective rather than a constraint.
The book will be an important reference for practitioners working in mining and related industries and to researchers of economic and management theory, mining operations, mining engineering and commodities.
Price: $53.99
Pages: 312
Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited
Imprint: Emerald Publishing Limited
Publication Date:
26 August 2019
ISBN: 9781789737882
Format: Hardcover
BISACs:
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Management, Industry & industrial studies, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / General
‘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.’
Robin Adams spent most of his adult life working as a minerals economist with Citibank, his own company Resource Strategies and the CRU Group both in England and the United States. His work included consulting for mining, fabricating and manufacturing companies as well as for international organizations. He died in 2014.
Christopher Gilbert is an Adjunct Professor at the Bologna Center of the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. He previously held professorial positions in London, Amsterdam and Trento. He is a Non-Executive Director of CRU International Ltd.
Christopher Stobart worked in the publishing industry and then as a financial journalist before joining CRU International in 1976. He has worked for that company in a variety of capacities since that date.
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