Tim Biggs
Tim has over 25 years’ experience working with the mining industry. From 2013 to 2020 he was the UK and EMEA Head of Mining & Metals for Deloitte LLP. For the two years leading up to his retirement from Deloitte at the end of 2020, Tim was also the firm’s global lead partner for a FTSE100 major diversified mining company based in London. In this role Tim led a team of partners and staff providing a full range of advisory and consulting services in multiple locations across the world.
Mining has a poor public image. It is often associated with environmental degradation, human rights violations and the unacceptable excesses of capitalism. But might it also be the key to ensuring a more sustainable future?
Leading industry expert Timothy Biggs argues that modern life is simply unthinkable without mining on a huge scale. From the mobile phone in your pocket to the building you’re standing in, the minerals and metals extracted by the mining industry make modern life possible. This fact will become more significant in the context of the environmental challenges we face. Tackling climate change will require technologies ranging from electric cars to solar panels, all of which require immense – and increasing – amounts of copper, iron ore, lithium and other metals. This makes it vital that states and societies respond constructively to the practical needs of the mining industry, and that mining companies address the very real problems associated with their operations.
Anyone who wants to understand the stark realities of how our economies will have to change in the context of contemporary environmental problems cannot afford to miss this brilliantly clear account from someone who understands this most vital – and misunderstood – of industries from the inside.
