Category: Mining & Natural Resources
Cloud Automation and Immutable Infrastructure
Modern DevOps tools and practices allow our team to focus on creating our software products rather than managing the servers on which they run. Back in my system administrator days, my team of 3 Unix professionals managed several dozen physical and virtual servers supporting student, staff, and faculty efforts at...
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Machine VS the Intern
This doesn’t mean that our tasks are necessarily easy to execute, but rather that they are more efficiently facilitated by gadgetry. Being a young person in San Francisco, I exploit technology to exert as little effort towards any duty I need to manage on any given day. I am infantile...
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Mike Neal, DecisionNext’s CEO & Co-Founder Weighs In On Improving Commodity Pricing Decisions
What’s the Biggest Decision-Making Challenge Facing Commodity Industries? Without a doubt, market volatility. And over the past decade, the volatility has only gotten greater. In the face of this uncertainty, commodity companies are routinely making multimillion-dollar decisions based on expected future prices with what amounts to gut feel and educated...
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Three Reasons Why Iron Ore Prices Have Dropped So Dramatically
Here are the three key failings that led to this unwelcome surprise: 1. Forecasts didn’t stand up to even the simplest review When we look at Japan’s production, it peaked at ~110Mtpa of steel. China has just over 10 times the population of Japan, so 1.1 billion tonnes of production...
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