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Miners facing uphill battle to win back trust

PROJECT delivery failures and over-optimistic studies remain major disincentives to investors in the mining space, according to Resource Capital Funds partner Ross Bhappu.

Elliott Holley in London
Ross Bhappu of Resources Capital Funds argues miners must ground feasibility studies in reality

Ross Bhappu of Resources Capital Funds argues miners must ground feasibility studies in reality

"The biggest issue holding this industry back is poor performance," he said at a conference in London last week. "Unrealistic commodity price assumptions, and over-optimistic feasibility studies ... ...

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