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Restructuring Sales Territories
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Mining companies’ most important asset – reputation
Benjamin Franklin Readers already know that Mine Insider is fascinated with how mining companies create and destroy shareholder value. Mine Insider has documented the ups and recently the significant declines in value at many mining companies (“$400 Billion reasons why mining management must change”) and the scorecard for recent mining company CEOs...
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How to be a successful investor in mining stocks – a checklist of nine ways that mining companies can make money
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Prophesies, Oracles and omens – why you should ignore single point forecasts
We have to stop using single point projections of the recent past to justify decisions (see the oil prices forecasts below for one illustration). It’s a given that commodity prices and markets are both volatile and cyclical. Mining analysts typically present their forecasts as a series of single numbers (or...
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To cut or not to cut?
So which side is right? The question at the heart of the debate is whether mining companies can influence prices for their products. One side sees price as an externality in which their actions have little influence and the other side believes production decisions can actively shape price. For those...
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