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David Robinson
David Robinson
Airships to the Arctic
A few years ago it took imagination to see the future sneaking up on Northern Ontario’s mining sector. Now it is getting hard to ignore.
Mar 5, 2019 9:53 AM
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The future of mining innovation
The federal government wants to boost innovation in mining. It is doing it the wrong way. Mining is a relatively small sector — 70,000 workers in 2016 — but it accounts for a stunning 19 per cent of the value of Canadian goods exports.
Feb 21, 2018 2:31 PM
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Stock and commodity prices may signal rebound
Stock markets report every day on individual wild horses in a stampeding herd of companies. Each horse, or company, is scored against itself.
Feb 27, 2017 12:33 PM
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What CEOs see and what we should do
Tugs have power to spare, but on dark and rainy nights, when the tide is running fast, there are channels that make even tugboat skippers nervous.
Sep 1, 2014 10:43 AM
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Mining: such a strange mix of products
Canada’s mineral sector is an odd collection of quite different industries, united by big trucks and high wages. Suppliers in for the long haul should think about the peculiar character of each segment of the mining industry.
Jun 1, 2014 9:00 AM
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Both the wind and the tides are in our favour
The fall of the Canadian dollar will have a positive effect on Canada’s mining supply and service sector and on domestic mining. When the dollar goes down, Canadian mines and Canadian suppliers do better.
Feb 13, 2014 3:32 PM
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Supply and service sector headed for good times
The mining supply and service sector will do much better than the rest of the economy over the next 50 years. Here’s why. And here is what we ought to do. There are three stylized facts that matter.
Nov 26, 2013 11:54 AM
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When bad news is good news, make fudge
In “A Detailed Analysis of the Productivity Performance of Mining in Canada,” Celeste Bradley and Andrew Sharpe concluded that “the productivity performance of mining in Canada has been very poor.
Aug 13, 2013 4:12 PM
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Masters of the Underground
Management consultants quote Sun Tsu’s Art of War when they want to emphasize strategy and creative thinking. I plan to quote Wayne Gretzky about an idea that I think mining supply firms should be pushing. Dr.
May 27, 2013 10:29 AM
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Sudbury cluster shouldn’t have happened
Mining sprawls. It is the nature of the beast. The way that metal production sprawls about the globe isn’t terribly convenient for human beings. We tend to like shorelines with lots of vegetation.
Mar 4, 2013 12:00 PM
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