World Mining Companies, Strategies for Growth

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World Mining Companies, Strategies for Growth

2005, by Mark Payne and Billie Payne, Mining Journal Books, Bochym Manor, Curry, Cornwall TR12 7AZ, United Kingdom, phone 44207216-6079, fax 4420-1326-240218, e-mail chrishinde@mining- journal. com. Web site www.mining-journal. com, 300 pp., bound, US$950 -This book examines the corporate strategies of 82 of the world’s leading mining companies. Some of the issues addressed by the authors are how those companies are responding to globalization of imperatives, which companies have been buying what companies and why, and what cost-reduction, value-adding and margin-enhancement activities are being pursued. The book also discusses which resource development and exploration initiatives are under way, and what plant and equipment construction, installation and improvement projects are being undertaken. And it examines product and business sector diversification strategies. Copyright Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration, Inc. Feb 2006