Mining Industry
topic on 4 shows · 7 statements across 6 episodes
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Caldwell: Mining industry faces 35 years of labor pool attrition
“It's the, you know, for the mining industry, we're in a similar position where we're kind of, we've had 35 years of just meaningful attrition in the labor pool.”
Caldwell: Mining pricing dynamics invert traditional manufacturing economies of scale
“Like in the mining industry, more demand, this is totally different than manufacturing, more demand if you have a higher volume, the expectation is that the price goes up. And because it's a, you know, constrained supply, and so the pricing dynamics are totall…”
Feldmann: The mining industry is in a severe workforce crisis
“We are in a workforce crisis in the mining industry right now. I heard someone say, oh, I like that. We don't have a, I don't have an autonomy problem in the mining industry, but labor problem. We just don't have enough people.”
Feldmann: Very few mining companies care about or build cool brands
“There are very few companies in the mining industry that really care about I think I would care about the brand. There are very few that are particularly good about creating a cool brand.”
Goldman: $1B in exploration yields less than one deposit discovery today
“If you take a portfolio of exploration projects that cost some money, say a billion dollars industry-wide, how many successes will you have? And then you know, industry-wide, a billion successes will have hundreds of failures, but eight discoveries as of 30 ye…”
Scheyder: Critical mineral mining relies more on industrial policy than oil
“I think increasingly what Washington does or doesn't do is going to have a huge effect on this industry in a way that the oil industry or the natural gas industry is not necessarily affected by industrial policy.”