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The other junior: planning for the next wave

When the dot com bubble burst in the early 2000s leaving start up technology companies down and out, the start of the commodities super cycle provided the junior mining sector with a wave to ride. In 2016, with the commodities cycle well and truly at the other end of the spectrum and the technology sector riding high again, it is clear mining and technology run counter-cyclically to each other.

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Junior miners could learn something from technology start-ups in places like Silicon Valley

For all their differences (real versus virtual world) there are, in fact, many similarities between these two supposedly boom and bust sectors and at this point in the commodities cycle it is worth

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