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Mark Fellows

Co-founder & CEO, Skarn Associates

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Mark Fellows

Co-founder & CEO, Skarn Associates

Prior to co-founding Skarn in 2016, Mark led the metals & mining consulting business at SNL Financial/S&P Global. Skarn is a mining sector data and research business, quantifying and benchmarking ESG impacts across the sector at the asset level.

Mark's career started in 1987 as an exploration geologist with Anglo American Corporation in Southern Africa. He went on to work for junior diamond and gold explorers in Africa. He subsequently spent 13 years at Brook Hunt (now Wood Mackenzie). From 2009 Mark was Managing Director of GFMS Mine Economics Limited, a business co-founded with GFMS Limited, which was sold to Thomson Reuters in 2011.

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Latest Archive

The Battle for Yamana Gold

Sunday November 20, 2022 10:37AM

(Kitco commentary) - Yamana Gold, a 1 million ounce a year gold producer in the Americas, became the sub-ject of a bidding war in November, when the company received a superior unsolicited counter bid from Pan American Silver and Agnico Ea-gle Mines which bettered an all stock deal proposed in May, by South Africas Gold Fields.

LME talks ESG change

Sunday November 20, 2022 10:34AM

(Kitco commentary) - London Metal Exchange (LME) week in October has taken on renewed importance for the base metals industry in recent years as ESG and de-carbonisation become more prominent, along-side the weeks traditional metals trading and relation-ship building focus.

Decarbonisation reshaping copper winners and losers

Tuesday October 18, 2022 03:07PM

(Kitco commentary) - As the concept of decarbonisation matures and companies put in place plans to achieve the relatively low-hanging fruit of Scope 1 and Scop 2 emissions, the attention of miners is increasingly turning towards reducing Scope 3 emissions in the supply chain.

Is the mining industry ready for this? No avoiding water reporting

Tuesday October 4, 2022 11:21AM

(Kitco commentary) - We live in strange, challenging times. Global warming and climate change as real concepts now have broad acceptance around the world. Extreme drought and unprecedented monsoons make it hard to deny.