Energy Strategies for the Mining Industry: A Strategic Perspective

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (Frontier Strategy Group) — While mining companies understand that oil prices and energy costs have an enormous impact on their bottom line, few companies have focused in a coherent way on both the challenge and the opportunity presented by the current energy price environment to the mining industry.

Neglecting the development of energy strategies will have important consequences for the competitive positioning of mining companies that do not devote executive and Board-level attention to the issue. Simply put, winners and losers in the mining industry over the coming decade will be determined as much by the successful management of the energy challenge as by the replacement of reserves.

All mining companies, from the mining industry