International Mining is pleased to announce that Paul Moore joined as Editor last week. He will already be familiar to many International Mining readers as he has been a key editorial figure in the mining industry for some years. Paul will have responsibility for the direction and content of the magazine, with support and advice from John Chadwick, the magazine’s founder.
John remains Publisher and will continue to contribute articles each month. These will include some of the Great Mines (a series on Newmont Mining will run from January to June 2011) and Operations Focus Series of features that have become the hallmark of IM‘s unique content and style. John will also be expanding International Mining’s consulting activities in technological advisory roles, market research and mining industry communications, with support from Paul.
Paul has very successfully edited mining publications for many years, and his in-depth and comprehensive take on technical feature writing as well as his insightful comment on key technology trends and industry consolidation is well known. As such, he will bring a lot of continuity to the existing International Mining style, but also fresh ideas.
Paul has a Geological Sciences BSc from Durham University (1998) as well as an MSc in Mineral Deposit Evaluation (1999) from Imperial College in London. During his time at university he also spent four months carrying out exploration fieldwork in 1996 and 1997 in Bolivia, first with Corriente Resources and then with Rio Tinto.
His mining/minerals journalism career began with the Metal Bulletin title, Industrial Minerals Magazine, in 2000 when he was appointedAssistant Editor. In early 2002, he moved to New York to write and manage the North American Minerals News title, as well covering the Americasfor Industrial Minerals as Senior Assistant Editor.
During his two years of working in the US, Paul gave presentations at several high profile minerals-related events organised by the Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration (SME), The Refractories Institute (TRI) and the Industrial Minerals Association – North America (IMA-NA). He also took responsibility for the Mineral PriceWatch title, a unique publication that covered mineral price movements and related them to key supply/demand changes.
Soon after returning to the UK in late 2003, Paul was promoted to Deputy Editor and remained with Industrial Minerals in that role before joining Mining Magazine in April 2006. During his almost six years at Industrial Minerals, he organised and directed conferences in South Africa, the US, Mexico, Canada, Austria and China on a variety of topics; as well as travelling to numerous other countries to attend exhibitions and visit mineral producers and traders to research features. His articles have been widely referenced by the US Geological Survey (USGS) and others. He also wrote a chapter on minerals transportation for the 7th Edition of the SME publication, Industrial Minerals & Rocks.
Paul and John as Editor and Publisher, respectively, will both be involved in first-hand reporting and mine site visits and together will be able to offer readers an even better global perspective. Their combined experience of the industry and its technoIogies and techniques is unmatched in mining journalism, which will allow us to keep readers even better informed about the best solutions, equipment and strategies from around the mining world to help them better overcome the challenges of this great industry. If you have any ideas or suggestions for editorial you would like to see within these pages, Paul ([email protected]) will be happy to hear from you.
Look for a refreshed International Mining under Paul’s management, in a publication that retains all the best features of the leading, and only monthly, technical publication for mining and metallurgical management across the metalliferous, industrial and energy mineral sectors.