Podcasts

Back

David Humphrey’s Outlook for the Mining Industry

30
December 2016
David Humphrey

This podcast is performed by Mr. David Humphrey. Mineral economics comprises a wide range of issues relating to the mineral sector. These include pure economics topics such as prices, costs, and productivity, as well as public policy issues such as scarcity, conservation and depletion, and finally aspects of geology, mining and technology. The purpose of this podcast is to describe the discipline of mineral economics and its various tools in evaluating the mineral industry from both a public and private sector perspective. In addition, the podcast try to give an outlook for the mining industry as of now.

RELATED CONTENT

  • Download PDF
    The Green Hydrogen Market: The Industrial Equation of the Energy Transition
    Authors
    Mounia Boucetta
    January 6, 2023
    The green hydrogen market1 is poised for major upheaval in the years to come as new players in the energy transition emerge. This market, however, still depends on the development of demand, the reduction of production, transport and storage costs, the development of truly competitive supply chains and the establishment of and appropriate legal and regulatory framework. Despite the many challenges facing this sector, a number of countries have begun to position themselves as impor ...
  • Download PDF
    Short of Water and Under Increasing Pressure to Deliver Food Security: Key Policy Considerations The Case of the Arab Republic of Egypt
    Authors
    Isabelle Tsakok
    January 2, 2023
    Climate change threatens to reduce the water flow in the Nile and increase the frequency and severity of droughts and floods in Egypt, which already suffers from water scarcity. This threat is a looming crisis as it seriously undermines the Government of Egypt’s long standing food self-sufficiency approach to food security, an approach which is wasteful of increasingly precious arable land and water resources, while achieving neither more food self-sufficiency nor meaningful food se ...
  • Perspectives de la crise des matières premières en Europe
    Sabrine Emran & Philippe Chalmin
    December 02, 2022
    Depuis février 2022, l’approvisionnement des matières premières en Europe constitue une des problématiques majeures auquel le continent est affronté. Si les matières premières agricoles s ...
  • حديث الثلاثاء: شمال افريقيا وأزمة الغاز الأوروبية
    October 25, 2022
    واجه الاتحاد الأوروبي خلال السنتين الماضيتين أزمة غير مسبقة في قطاع الطاقة بدأت منذ سنة 2021 واشتدت مع الأزمة الروسية الأوكرانية. فارتفعت أسعار الطاقة عمومًا والغاز على وجه الخصوص ممّا تسبّب في ضغطات مرتفعة على الفاعلين الاقتصاديين مستهلكين كانوا ام شركات. فحاول المفوضية والمجلس الأوروب...
  • Download PDF
    Europe's strategic interest in completing the Nigeria-Morocco Gas Pipeline
    Authors
    Jamal Machrouh
    October 21, 2022
    This Policy Brief addresses the question of Europe's interest in the Nigeria-Morocco Gas Pipeline project. The paper advances six arguments to support this interest and its relevance. 1) The project effectively diversifies European gas resources and provide greater scope for action. 2) Building the pipeline helps create a new generation of measures to curb the asymmetric risks Europe faces. 3) The project mitigates the risk of replacing European dependence on Russian gas with anothe ...
  • Download PDF
    La gouvernance des ressources naturelles en Afrique : le modèle botswanais
    Authors
    Oumnia Boutaleb
    October 21, 2022
    Avec près d’une vingtaine de pays dotés de minerais de tout genre, l’Afrique renferme les plus grandes réserves en ressources naturelles dans le monde. Paradoxalement, le continent reste l’une des régions les moins développées et comptant des populations parmi les plus pauvres. Inégalité dans la distribution des richesses, convoitise des ressources du continent par des entreprises étrangères ainsi qu’un manque de transparence de la part des dirigeants africains, sont autan ...
  • Download PDF
    Pourquoi l’Europe a-t-elle un intérêt stratégique dans la réalisation du Gazoduc Nigeria-Maroc ?
    Authors
    Jamal Machrouh
    October 5, 2022
    Le présent Policy Brief tente d’apporter une réponse à la question de l’intérêt de l’Europe dans la réalisation du projet de Gazoduc Nigeria-Maroc. Six arguments sont avancés pour fonder l’existence et la pertinence d’un tel intérêt. 1) Le projet participerait efficacement à la diversification des ressources gazières des pays européens et leur donnerait plus de marge de manoeuvre. 2) La mise en place du gazoduc participerait à l’édification d’une nouvelle génération de mesures qui a ...
  • Africa to the rescue of Europe?
    Hamza Mjahed, Soukaina El Majidi
    September 09, 2022
    Key Challenges and Opportunities of African natural gas supplies to Europe. Since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, the African natural gas has emerged as an alternative to Russian na ...