Exploration Radio
77 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 1 year ago - ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsWelcome to Exploration Radio, a podcast focusing on the past, present and future of exploration. Featuring interviews and discussions with explorers about the challenges they have faced, what we stand to learn from them and how we can better prepare for the future. Ultimately these are stories about exploration...and the people, places and issues prevalent within it. Come join us and let's explore.
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MINI - Should Academics Be More Entrepreneurial?
June 22, 2019 07:33 - 19 minutes - 17.5 MBWould academic research be more relevant to industry if academics adopted a more entrepreneurial approach? What could the lean startup model teach researchers?
#23 - Re-defining Resource Development with Mary Poulton
June 12, 2019 02:22 - 47 minutes - 43.4 MBA geologist, an engineer, and a social scientist walk into a bar. They discuss how the value proposition of resource development has changed and how we need to evolve it beyond just the economic benefit it provides.
#22 - The Wisdom of the Crowd with Holly Bridgwater
June 06, 2019 02:10 - 53 minutes - 49 MBBill Joy once said "There are always more smart people outside your company than within it"... So should we be looking at ways to utilise the wisdom of the crowd? Are the many cleverer than the few?
#21 - The Entrepreneur's Dilemma with Justin Strharsky
May 16, 2019 13:14 - 1 hour - 69.2 MBThe role of any entrepreneur, or any startup, is to learn... learn as quickly as possible before you go out of business.
#20 - The Three Princes of Serendip with Samantha Copeland (Part 2)
May 16, 2019 12:44 - 1 hour - 55.1 MBOnce upon a time, there were Three Princes from Serendip. They had many adventures. One of them involved a camel. This story teaches us a lot about serendipity...and ultimately about scientific discoveries.
#20 - The Three Princes of Serendip with Samantha Copeland (Part 1)
April 01, 2019 11:35 - 1 hour - 85.3 MBOnce upon a time, there were Three Princes from Serendip. They had many adventures. One of them involved a camel. This story teaches us a lot about serendipity...and ultimately about scientific discoveries.
#19 - Skateboarders and Base Jumpers with John Vann
March 11, 2019 06:32 - 1 hour - 79.1 MBAn exploration geologist and a mine geologist walk into a bar. They start talking about skateboarding and base jumping. What happens next...they learn what those activities can teach them about mining and exploration.
#18 - Taking Every Meeting with Malcolm Norris
November 29, 2018 00:38 - 48 minutes - 44.8 MBWorking in a big company is like a making a movie. While managing a junior or a startup is like standup comedy. Malcolm Norris joins us to explain why that is.
#17 - Exploration Startup 101 with Mark Bennett
November 14, 2018 07:33 - 1 hour - 55.8 MBIn this class, we talk about the good, the bad and the ugly of starting your own company... and what challenges you face in becoming the architect of your own success and failure.
#16 - Boiling frogs with Jon Hronsky
June 25, 2018 04:02 - 1 hour - 60.3 MBIf you put a frog into boiling water, it will jump out. But if you put a frog in cold water and slowly boil the water, it will not recognise the danger at all. Does this metaphor apply to how we deal with change in science?
#15 - Change is inevitable. Adaptability a choice
June 04, 2018 06:17 - 1 hour - 55.1 MBIt is not the strongest species that survive, nor the most intelligent. But the ones that are the most responsive to change. No better way to describe Peta Libby.
#14 - 7 Lessons from Julian Malnic
May 22, 2018 01:54 - 38 minutes - 35.1 MBMining metals on the ocean floor, an asteroid mining company... just some of the ideas Julian Malnic has succeeded with. He is an innovator. And he has 7 lessons for us.
#13 - An outsider's perspective
May 16, 2018 10:09 - 42 minutes - 38.5 MBWe have covered different perspectives on innovation and disruption in the mining and exploration industries. But this time, we get the perspective of someone outside of our industry...and what do they see looking in.
#12 - Disruption & the DIGITAL MINE
May 08, 2018 00:34 - 28 minutes - 25.7 MBThe US Marines have a saying..."Everyone wants to get into heaven. But no one wants to die." Is this a metaphor for how we treat new business models?
#11 - Are WE the barrier to innovation?
April 25, 2018 09:37 - 39 minutes - 35.7 MBThese days, innovation is on everyone's lips in the mining industry. We are all desperate to innovate. But if...we ourselves are the biggest barrier to innovation?
#10 - Why is mining a cyclical industry?
April 10, 2018 01:44 - 41 minutes - 37.9 MBHave you ever been made redundant because of the cyclical nature of our industry? Everyone that works in mining knows that the industry is cyclical. There are booms and busts and they control everything. But have you ever wondered why?
MINI - the CRAESTAR lessons
March 26, 2018 23:14 - 8 minutes - 8.09 MBSteve and Ahmad talk about what lessons they learned about innovation from the CRAESTAR story.
#9 - A ship called CRAESTAR (part 2)
March 19, 2018 22:00 - 30 minutes - 28 MBLast week, we found out about the beginnings of the CRAESTAR program - a floating exploration base used by CRA to explore for copper in the Pacific islands. This week, we continue the story. How successful was the program in the end? And what lessons did CRA learn from it?
#8 - A ship called CRAESTAR (Part 1)
March 05, 2018 22:52 - 44 minutes - 40.6 MBThe MV CRAESTAR was a retrofitted fishing trawler with a heli-pad and analytical laboratory. It was a floating exploration base, built for speed and efficiency. It was CRA's innovative solution to the challenges of exploring in the Pacific islands. What can this program teach us about innovation on the front line...and what lessons can we learn from it? This episode explores the beginnings of the CRAESTAR program.
#7 - The mining industry...is it an innovation laggard?
April 25, 2017 22:00 - 37 minutes - 34.3 MBThese days, innovation is all around us...a basic requirement in most industries. You either innovate, or you die. So what about the mining industry, often considered a laggard when it comes to technology and innovation. How will it innovate? We talk to Andrew Shook, who has held several technology and innovation roles in BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto. In his opinion, innovation can be explained by a single word...change.
#6 - The Rover Boys...using whiskey as a lion repellent
April 12, 2017 10:52 - 45 minutes - 62.4 MBRover Boys were a crack team of petroleum geologists, exploring the world for the last large surface discoveries of petroleum. This team went anywhere and everywhere. They smoked camel dung and used whiskey as a lion repellent...they were built for adventure. But during their time, the industry transitioned offshore and there was no longer room left for the Rover Boys. In today's episode, we talk to David Kingston who led the real Rover Boys. This story provides a rare look into the future f...
#5 - Wanderlust
April 05, 2017 01:47 - 32 minutes - 29.5 MBIs Wanderlust just a Jennifer Aniston movie? Or is it something more? Wanderlust is an insatiable thirst for travel, culture, new people...or just the new in general. It has driven many an explorer to search out places where others have not been to or where others will not go. This week we talk to Dan Olberg...an exploration geologist that epitomises the drive it takes to be an explorer.
#4 - A Rebel with a Cause...with Alex Atkins
March 28, 2017 04:18 - 33 minutes - 30.9 MBIt is 1987. As a university student, you show up for your first day of work and are told "you have to leave, you cannot stay here". Why? "Because you are a girl and girls don't work in mines". Does this seem a little far fetched? Well this is how Alex Atkins started her career in mining.
#3 - How to do Frontier Exploration...the discovery story of Reko Diq
March 20, 2017 20:24 - 59 minutes - 54.2 MBAlan Moore, a young Australian geologist, heads to a remote, inhospitable part of SW Pakistan to explore for copper. Along the way, he teams up with Saad Husain, a local Pakistani, that becomes his ever present project manager. This is their story and how their work led to the discovery of the Reko Diq deposit. But...it is not your typical discovery story. It is much more than that.
#2 - What makes a successful explorer (Part 2)
March 12, 2017 22:27 - 44 minutes - 40.5 MBWhat does it take to be a successful explorer? Is it technical knowledge?...the right strategy?...having a lot of money?...or just luck? What if the most important ingredient for success...was culture. This episode is part 2 of our interview with Mark Bennett, a successful mineral explorer who has evolved his own views and his own successful culture.
#1 - What makes a successful explorer (Part 1)
March 05, 2017 16:00 - 28 minutes - 39.1 MBWhat does it take to be a successful explorer? Is it technical knowledge?...the right strategy?...having a lot of money?...or just luck? What if the most important ingredient for success...was culture. This episode we look at the building of an explorer culture.. a discovery culture...with Mark Bennett, a successful mineral explorer who has evolved his own views and his own successful culture.
Introducing Exploration Radio
February 15, 2017 06:01 - 2 minutes - 2.17 MBWelcome to Exploration Radio...a podcast focusing on the past, present and future of mineral exploration. Featuring interviews and discussions with explorers about the challenges they have faced, what we stand to learn from them and how we can better prepare for the future. Ultimately these are stories about exploration...the people, places and issues prevalent in mineral exploration.