Insight and services for the global mining and metals industry

Globalization is creating tremendous opportunities and challenges for mining and metals companies today: borders are coming down and new opportunities are opening up, commodity demand is rising, prices are increasing, and new deposits are harder to discover and in more complex locations.

Our clients around the world expect to be served by professionals who combine technical capabilities with a thorough understanding of their industry operating processes, growth drivers, regulatory considerations, and market dynamics. Our Global Mining & Metals Center connects teams around the globe who share information on current and emerging trends in the mining and metals sector to help clients manage risk, optimize performance, and increase operational effectiveness.

The Center is where people and ideas come together to help mining and metals companies meet the issues of today and anticipate those of tomorrow.

Backpedaling on the cycle

The pace of consolidation in the mining industry shows no sign of slowing. Continuing robust levels of metal and mineral prices are fuelling the drive for growth though acquisition. This paper examines how cyclical the sector really is, the challenge of forecasting and what this could mean for the sector going forward.

Is now the time for private equity?

Private equity houses have previously taken little interest in the mining sector, with the industry being perceived as inappropriate for financial purchasers. However, with the ever-increasing buying power available to private equity and the rapidly changing metrics of the mining sector, perhaps it is time for mining to be reconsidered.

Attitudes to risk in the global mining sector

While risk has always been an inherent part of mining, corporations are continuing to look for more effective ways to deal with risk, in order to obtain the value they have worked so hard to build. Our survey of over 400 top industry leaders offers insight into the increasing demands of risk management (pdf, 748kb).

Mining taxation annual report

"Taxation of mining operations", an annual report published by LexisNexis Matthew Bender and prepared with the assistance of Ernst & Young's Mining Tax group, analyzes the issues, laws, regulations, cases and rulings that govern federal income taxation of operations involving minerals other than oil and gas. Visit the LexisNexis Bookstore to purchase your copy.

The most attractive mining capital markets

Most of the major mining and metals companies are now listed in London. Has the city become the new sector capital centre at the expense of the traditional markets? “Where have all the miners gone?” (pdf, 421kb) explores the global mining capital markets and assesses their relative attractiveness in the age of consolidation.

Performance and analysis of AIM companies

In the latest Mining Eye, Ernst & Young UK examines disposals, and how the increase in metals prices is attracting a more criminal element into the sector. Read analysis of mining and metals companies’ Q4 2007 AIM performance.