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Navigating the mine field

With the prospect of a global economic slowdown, falling metals prices, increasing uncertainty about demand and tightening of capital markets, the global mining and metals industry is facing a new era of both challenges and opportunities.

Our Global Mining & Metals Center connects a team of over 1,000 mining and metals industry professionals, including geologists, mining engineers, mineral economists and metallurgists. At the Center, we use our wide experience of working with the world’s largest mining and metals companies to help you to address your key business issues.

This might involve helping you to overcome current sector issues such as rising costs, where we can help you to streamline operational and business processes and improve productivity on key profit drivers.

In this environment of increased sector consolidation, we can assist you with your divestment strategies and the realization of full value at exit. If you are looking to expand your operations to new regions, you can draw on our deep understanding of how to manage operational risks — both political and otherwise.

Read more about our services or visit the Global Mining & Metals Library for further related reading and thought leadership.

Lessons from change: mining and metals

How do you manage through the recession and position your company for growth? Our mining and metals partners conducted more than 500 client meetings and identified some overarching themes. Accelerated decision-making, operational flexibility and alternative financing options could mean the difference between surviving and thriving.

Operational risk in the mining sector: a competitive difference


This paper explores the strategies companies are adopting as they further develop their risk frameworks, including a risk culture, risk convergence, enterprise risk management and economic capital models.

Download the report in English (pdf, 658kb), Chinese (pdf, 2.7mb).

Global transactions - the year when cash was king


2008 was a year of two halves for mining and metals: The year started with dizzying optimism and ended with the collapse of commodity prices, causing the industry to become polarized between the haves and have-nots. This report, 2008: the year when cash was king examines the challenges, issues and trends surrounding deal-making in the mining and metals sector last year. It includes an analysis of mergers and acquisitions, initial public offerings, bonds, loans and project finance.

Download the report in English (pdf, 92kb), Chinese (pdf, 224kb).

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Peter Markey 
China Mining & Metals Industry Leader
Tel: +86 21 2228 2616

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