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Melody McNeil: Above Ground First - What Mining Can Learn from International Development
Melody McNeil is an agriculture and natural resource economist who has spent decades working with USAID and Catholic Relief Services across East and Central Africa, Afghanistan, and South Sudan - not inside mining companies, but alongside them, and who has seen first-hand what happens when above-ground conditions are treated as an afterthought.
The conversation centres on a deceptively simple question: if you were the CEO of a small exploration company, how would you do it?
What unfolds is a genuinely thought-provoking discussion about how the extractive industries value risk, and whether…
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