The Business of Mining (ePub)

Dr Eric Lilford is a minerals economist and engineer, with interests covering quantitative research, advanced valuation methodologies, determining regulatory impacts on mineral and energy economics to both companies and governments, commodity trends, guiding mining and exploration companies, capital markets and developing and executing economic growth and optimisation strategies. Dr Lilford has multi-commodity and multi-jurisdictional expertise obtained over 29 years in the resources industry in technical, economic, financial, management and academic roles.
His current roles include lecturing and researching in minerals and energy economics at Curtin University and progressing early-stage studies for exploration companies focussed on Sub-Saharan Africa. Dr Lilford retains the position of non-executive Chair of SSC, a South African-based commodities focused company. He has also held the chair of one and the managing director of three ASX-listed companies, as well as NED positions of numerous other listed companies. Prior to this, he was national head of mining and a corporate finance partner at Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu in Perth. Before emigrating to Australia, he was a director of project and business development at BSGR, where he managed aspects of large copper-cobalt projects, mines and plants located in Zambia and the DRC.
Dr Lilford has conducted extensive mining and investment business in more than 22 countries, has presented at numerous conferences world-wide and has authored many peer-reviewed topical articles in high quality journals. Dr Lilford holds a BSc and an MSc in Engineering, and a PhD in Mineral Economics. He is a Fellow of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy.

Professor Sam Spearing is currently Director of the WA School of Mines in Kalgoorlie and is active in rock mechanics, mine design, training and support research. He has co-invented several support products commonly used in tabular mining operations. Professor Spearing received his BSc in Mining Engineering and Master of Civil Engineering from the University of the Witwatersrand. He completed a PhD in ultra-deep hard rock tabular mining, support and backfilling at the University of Silesia. Professor Spearing held the position of Associate Professor in the Department of Mining and Mineral Resources Engineering at Southern Illinois University Carbondale prior to joining Curtin in 2015 as Deputy Director of the WA School of Mines. Professor Spearing is the author of the SAIMM-published book Rock Mechanics, has authored more than 40 peer-reviewed papers, supported more than $1.5 million dollars of funded research since joining academia in 2007, and been published in a variety of technical books and related publications.

Professor Grantley Taylor has an honours degree in Science from the University of Adelaide and a PhD in Accounting from Curtin University. He commenced his career in the mining industry when he worked for North Limited/Geopeko for 12 years in several operations throughout Australia. Following a career in the mining sector, Professor Taylor then worked for the Australian Taxation Office for three years where he worked in the Large Business and International Sector, specifically the Energy and Resources Division, located in Perth. In 2006, he commenced teaching and research in the School of Accounting at Curtin University where he now works as professor and deputy head of that school. His research focuses on accounting as applied to the extractive industry, taxation, corporate governance, financial instruments, capital markets, corporate social responsibility. He has published widely in a range of international journals.