ABSTRACT
This fi nal section attends to the future and the impact of some aspects of a rapidly changing world already bearing down on the international mining industry, heavily drawing on personal communication with and on a forthcoming paper by Jim and Helen Singleton (2008 – in press). A critical factor underlying the following discussion, an underlying theme in this text, is the increasing trend towards the exploration and development of exploitable mineral resources in sometimes diffi cult parts of the world.
