This paper investigates the mining industry's poor productivity performance as measured by the conventional multifactor … productivity (MFP) index during the recent mining boom in Australia. We derive a relationship between the measured and 'true' MFP … average MFP growth in Australian mining based on the dual measure of technical change is nearly 2% over the sample period 1974 …

to easily extract data; the field has little confidence in data; people spend more time mining data than analyzing data …

The Intermountain Center for Mining Research and Development (ICMRD) was established with the Idaho National Laboratory … (INL) as the cornerstone, and with regional universities, mining schools, and the Western mining industry as full members …. In aggregate, the members provide the strong mining research and development capabilities and knowledge that are …

fatality rates by showing the riskiest industries to be mining; agriculture, forestry, and fisheries; construction …

This paper examines Australian media representations of the male managers of two global mining corporations, Rio Tinto … the world's largest mining company. In terms of its profits and assets Rio Tinto ranks fourth in the world, but with …

to evaluate a select number of companies in the mining sector with whom CI has worked for several years to determine how … conservation results. Research methods included a review of scholarly literature, comparative company research of four mining …

South African mining industry andthen to establish their importance to the industry.The research incorporated both …

. Based on the analysis of nine oil and gas companies, this study supports a previous study involving fourteen mining … companies that showed reserves growth is one of the main levers of value creation in mining. Interestingly, this study also … finds that the oil and gas industry has been historically more profitable than mining. The reason, it is argued, is that oil …

This research aims to elucidate how economic value is generated in the mining business and what the sources of such … economic value are. A predicament arises when asking what determines the value of a mining company. The relevancy of this … question rests on the influence of mining in economics and society at large. This subject has become even more critical during …