Unity searches for assets, identity
March 21 - 27, 2012
THE company now known as Unity Mining is on the prowl for another significant asset, and with a sizeable and growing war chest, ready-made due diligence team and experienced M&A executive leading the venture, the indications are this is very much more than just another company in the sector espousing standard rhetoric while doing little beyond going through the motions.
The right man for the job
August 4 - 10, 2011
IBM’s loss was, as they say, Atlas Copco’s gain, though the man who has overseen Atlas Copco Australia’s spectacular growth of recent years was almost lost to the Swedish company too, more than 40 years ago.
Success the Simich way
July 7 - 13, 2011
IT IS almost two years ago to the day that the first diamond drill hole into the DeGrussa deposit transformed Sandfire Resources from a A10c stock into $A1 billion dollar plus copper developer. For managing director Karl Simich, Sandfire’s success is the culmination of a career that he can credit partly to a bad knee injury when he was 18.
Deep belief in shallow potash field
May 26 - June 1, 2011
LORRY Hughes is a man on a mission and that mission is to develop the world’s first major shallow potash mine in the small African nation of Eritrea.
African pioneer sees a sea of positives
March 17 - 23, 2011
THE first African mine Brad Marwood worked on was opened by none other than then-British prime minister Margaret Thatcher. Now, 20 years later, as the managing director of Tiger Resources, he is about to celebrate the commissioning of the Kipoi project in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the latest success story from Australia’s growing love affair with Africa.
Gold junior’s new chief looks for answers
February 16 - 22, 2011
SOUTHERN Gold’s new managing director Nanette Anderson admits to questioning why more investors aren’t jumping aboard the gold explorer given the drilling results from its Bulong South project – the same results that prompted her to throw her lot in with the company late last year.
Africa move marks new Reed chapter
January 26 - February 1, 2011
LINDSAY Reed’s working career began at eight with an axe in-hand in the Victorian high country beside his faller (aka lumberjack) father, and it’s been a colourful career ever since for the mining engineer and managing director of Aviva Corp.
Familiar territory
January 19 - 25, 2011
AS ONE of the team that helped develop Gindalbie Metals’ Karara iron ore project in Western Australia, Andrew Munckton knows a thing or two about magnetite. That knowledge has been invaluable in his newest role at Avalon Minerals as the company’s Viscaria project in Sweden has evolved from straight copper play to something a little more complex.
Olsen’s big leap
December 1 - 7, 2010
REX Minerals’ managing director Steve Olsen spent the better part of his career dealing with the intricacies of high-grade, narrow-veined orebodies. Now he is approaching the development of almost the direct opposite at the large Hillside copper project in South Australia.
Greenland’s great hope
November 17 - 23, 2010
GREENLAND Minerals and Energy’s Rod McIllree is the man tasked with driving the development of the world’s largest rare earths project. And as if that wasn’t enough pressure, the project is also of vital importance to the Greenlandic economy as it moves towards independence from Denmark.
Powerful ambitions
November 3 - 9, 2010
ADVICE from his father-in-law saw chartered accountant Ian Murray decide to throw his lot in with the mining sector over a career in the insurance industry. Some 13 years later he is now the chairman of Eleckra Mines and seeking to convince the market the junior gold play has found something big.
Hitting the right note
October 27 - November 2, 2010
WHEN Ian Mulholland isn’t heading up exploration company Rox Resources, which just last week announced a joint venture with Canadian major Teck over its flagship Myrtle project, he can usually be found performing with one of three men’s vocal groups, including Australia’s top barbershop quartet.
A family affair
October 6 - 12, 2010
SARACEN Mineral Holding’s chief operating officer Raleigh Finlayson has a family history steeped in Australia’s gold industry, and now he is playing his role in building part of its future.
Third time lucky
September 29 - October 5, 2010
THE career of Horseshoe Metals managing director Neil Marston keeps coming back to the Horseshoe Lights copper project in Western Australia’s up and coming Peak Hill mineral field. His newly-listed company is now looking to resuscitate the copper project for the third time.
Home is where the project is for local crusader
September 8 - 14, 2010
MOST company managing directors with projects out of Australia resign themselves to racking up the frequent flyer points. For Crusader Resources managing director Rob Smakman the decision to live and work in Brazil, where his company’s projects are, makes much more sense than trying to run things from West Perth.
Price not right for the life aquatic
September 1 - 7, 2010
A DECISION to change tack at university, from marine biology to geology, has propelled Artemis Resources’ new general manager David Price several times around the world from the forests of Papua New Guinea to the Austrian alps, and now into the top job at a gold explorer sitting on some decent real estate.
60 seconds with David Price
September 1 - 7, 2010
HIGHGRADE: Three people who have most influenced you in your career/life?
Doray and the evolution of a gold prospect
August 4 - 10, 2010
THE initial successes of explorer Doray Minerals, which listed in February this year, have been a very welcome surprise for the company’s managing director Allan Kelly. With his background in exploration at Western Mining Corporation, he knew the company’s Murchison projects were prospective, but hitting grades as high as 125 grams per tonne gold less than two months after listing was certainly not part of the original plan.
60 seconds with Allan Kelly
August 4 - 10, 2010
WHO are three people who have most influenced you in your career/life, and why?
Time to get smart
December 8 - 14, 2008
NOV 24: ‘GET THE cow and we’ll talk some more’, sounds like a line out of an episode of popular 70s spy sitcom Get Smart. It’s basically the deal Phil Welten signed on for when he became managing director of Indo Mines early last year.
60 seconds with Phil Welten
December 8 - 14, 2008
NOV 24: THREE people who have influenced you/your career/why?
Accounting for the times
November 17 - 23, 2008
NOV 10, 2008: YOU’D expect the accountant son of a high profile former stockbroker with generations of mining and prospecting in his blood to have a good eye for opportunities. And the funding support for the company he heads earlier this year from a well-known and well-connected executive gives credence to such an expectation.
60 seconds with Chris Reed
November 10 - 16, 2008
THREE people who have most influenced you in your career/life (why?)
Hunt brings Kitto back home
November 3 - 9, 2008
ONE Canadian investment bank’s view of declining gold production in Burkina Faso within a few years could prove hopelessly wide of the mark if results from Ampella Mining’s initial drilling at Batie West in the south of the landlocked country are any guide. “Comparing it with everything else I’ve looked at this could be a multi-million ounce camp,” says the company’s new managing director Dr Paul Kitto.
60 seconds with Paul Kitto
November 3 - 9, 2008
NAME three people who’ve had a significant influence on you/your career/why?
Northern Star yet to fit Bill
October 20 - 26, 2008
OCTOBER 13, 2008: THERE is an intriguing mix at Northern Star Resources, a greenfields exploration junior backed by the lean, mean Xstrata, and led by Bill Beament, an engineer who cut his teeth at the sharp end of the resources sector as an underground mining contractor.
60 seconds with Bill Beament
October 13 - 19, 2008
WHO are three people who have most influenced you in your career/life (why)?
Brown believes gold yet to peak
October 6 - 12, 2008
JUSTIN Brown heads the sort of junior exploration company that on the face of it is one of many worldwide now under some threat following the credit crunch and the flight from equities. But shareholders of the company he leads, Montezuma Mining, will be reassured that as well as his geological background, Brown has proven business savvy.
60 seconds with Justin Brown
October 6 - 12, 2008
THREE people who have most influenced you in your career/life, and why?
No gremlins in Brockman path
September 29 - October 5, 2008
RUNNING the Murrin Murrin nickel and Boodarie hot briquetted iron plants in Western Australia would have given most managers long-term insomnia. But Brockman Resources managing director Wayne Richards is sleeping relatively easily these days, despite perilous world financial markets, a punishing local bourse, and persistent suggestions of a slowdown in China.
60 seconds with Wayne Richards
September 29 - October 5, 2008
WHO are three people who have most influenced you in your career/life?
Andrew has iron, Jonathan Ironbark
September 22 - 28, 2008
IF EVER there was an appropriate time to use the “elephant in the room” cliché, this would most probably be it. However, as befits the sentiment of the cliché, the managing director of Ironbark Gold Jonathan Downes is far keener to focus on the elephantine-size of Ironbark’s Citroen zinc-lead project in Greenland then his extended family.
60 seconds with Jonathan Downes
September 22 - 28, 2008
WHO are three people who have most influenced you in your career/life (why)?
Credible core
September 15 - 21, 2008
CREDIBILITY for an explorer comes instantly when the biggest miner of your chosen mineral pays a significant premium for equity in your company. Which is why Magma Metals Keith Watkins would be among the more relaxed managing directors of a junior resources company in the current market turmoil.
60 seconds with Keith Watkins
September 15 - 21, 2008
THREE people who have most influenced you in your career/life?
Back to where it all started
September 8 - 14, 2008
PETER Rossdeutscher knows a thing or two about growing an IT company. He also thinks he knows what makes a good one. So far, he likes what he sees at Micromine, where he’s just been appointed CEO after the company’s long search for someone to drive its next phase of growth.
60 seconds with Peter Rossdeutscher
September 8 - 14, 2008
WHO are the three people who have had the biggest impact on your career?
The accidental geologist
September 1 - 7, 2008
WHILE every man and his dog active in West Africa invariably makes claims about the huge potential of their respective gold exploration projects, the affable young Kiwi running Gryphon Minerals, Steve Parsons, has a head start when it comes to justifying the rhetoric.
60 seconds with Steve Parsons
September 1 - 7, 2008
NAME three people who have most influenced you?
Deep attraction to WA still there
August 25 - 31, 2008
A CANADIAN geologist with pedigree leads one of the new generation exploration companies hunting that rarest of commodities in Australia in recent years, a major new gold discovery.
60 seconds with Marcus Willson
August 25 - 31, 2008
THREE people who have most influenced you in your career/life?
A straightforward path to production
August 18 - 24, 2008
WORD has it that Sacha Baron Cohen and his team randomly chose Kazakhstan as the birthplace of the comic character Borat because, as one of the hit movie’s producers said, they "thought it would not be that easy to check up about”. That view could now be changing, which is to the advantage of companies such as Central Asia Resources.
60 seconds with Jason Stirbinskis
August 18 - 24, 2008
WHO are three people who have influenced you/your career?
Discovery's new Maun
August 11 - 17, 2008
BRAD Sampson’s honeymoon period at the head of a public company appears to be far from over, with this week’s $A8.2 million equity raising by Discovery Metals affirming investor support for Discovery’s strategic course. It’s a path that has taken the Australian mining engineer back to a part of the world that produced both the high and low points of his career.
60 seconds with Brad Sampson
August 11 - 17, 2008
THREE people who have influenced you/your career?
Zambezi takes early action on hangover
August 4 - 10, 2008
A WHITE knuckle ride is what it feels like for an engineer overseeing an aggressive exploration program on ground said to have world class potential. However, after the big party of the past few years for the exploration sector, the white knuckle ride Zambezi Resources’ Julian Ford refers now also features a hangover.
60 seconds with Julian Ford
August 4 - 10, 2008
THREE people who have most influenced you in your career/life?
Looking for the right partner
July 28 - August 3, 2008
NICKEL heap leaching has been an alluring prospect that to date hasn’t actually amounted to a great deal. The rather low profile GME Resources is aiming to change the status quo in a big way, and the key to its success, according to the company’s managing director David Varcoe, is pretty much the same as for any other mining project – quality and quantity.
60 seconds with David Varcoe
July 28 - August 3, 2008
THREE people who have most influenced you in your career/life?
Lynch mob on the move
July 21 - 27, 2008
PETER Lynch is an admirer but not an imitator of Andrew Forrest. The so-called “Twiggy” of Australian coal is most definitely his own man and has runs on the board – going back to his university days in Sydney – to prove it. Nevertheless his vision for Queensland’s Galilee Basin is every bit as grand and visionary as that which has transformed Western Australia’s Pilbara region.
60 seconds with Peter Lynch
July 21 - 27, 2008
GIVEN your popularity at university, if you weren’t in mining would you be in politics?
Bugs, bucks and disbelief
July 14 - 20, 2008
INTERESTING times in China for Garry Frere, the managing director of ASX-listed Pacific Ore. A feasibility study for a heap leach copper and copper-zinc development using Pacific Ore’s BioHeap technology is now underway, and the implications, if successful, will clearly be company changing. Naturally the sceptics aren’t convinced. Not yet anyway.
60 seconds with Garry Frere
July 14 - 20, 2008
NAME three people who have most influenced you in your career/life?
Registered builder
July 7 - 13, 2008
NO time to waste. It’s the catchphrase of the moment for Western Australia’s expanding resources sector and, supposedly, a new generation of workers – Y. It could certainly be the motto of newly listed engineering and project management group Emerson Stewart and its managing director Dario Amara.
60 seconds with Dario Amara
July 7 - 13, 2008
ANYONE that you think has done extremely well what you're now trying to do?
Heron turns bird of prey
June 23 - 29, 2008
HERON Resources’ Mat Longworth has a big year ahead of him. His mission: find a financier for the proposed Yerilla nickel project, and buy an operating mine. Both objectives look significant challenges in the current environment, but the company’s track record in recent years should give Heron shareholders cause for some confidence.
60 seconds with Mat Longworth
June 23 - 29, 2008
THREE people who have most influenced you in your career/life?
Life after death
June 16 - 22, 2008
WHEN he left Australia Harry Anagnostaras-Adams, who spent nine years at the helm of junior gold miner Gympie Gold, was perceived in some quarters as a failure. The company went into receivership. A long battle to make the problematic Gympie gold field in Queensland a success was lost. It has taken nearly five years for Adams to get a serious shot at redemption.
60 seconds with Harry Adams
June 16 - 22, 2008
WHAT is different about the view of mining in that part of the world [Spain versus Australia]?
Punting on a fast track to production
June 9 - 15, 2008
PETER van der Borgh doesn’t like to give too much away – like many of the current crop of corporate colts, he’s wary of the stewards at the Australian Securities and Investments Commission. He does, however, think he’s on a winner at Dargues Reef in south-eastern New South Wales.
Banking on a golden run
June 2 - 8, 2008
WHEN it comes to pedigree, Roland Hill has a classic mining bloodline. Add to that his extensive financial market experience, and the unprecedented $A122 million backing by a first-tier investment bank last year of the modest looking mining company he heads starts making sense.
60 seconds with Roland Hill
June 2 - 8, 2008
THREE people who have most influenced you in your career/life?
Davis on the fast and narrow
May 26 - June 1, 2008
IF LES Davis is afflicted with “ex-WMC manager’s” syndrome, he’s not exhibiting the symptoms. Whether he can restore the health and vitality of another significant old gold field in Western Australia remains to be seen, but he’s not sticking with a standard prescription on that front either.
60 seconds with Les Davis
May 26 - June 1, 2008
WHY gold?
Tin underpins good fortune
May 19 - 25, 2008
SOME serendipity seems to have been at play when metallurgist Wayne Bramwell was introduced to a promising tin project in Morocco. And with the metal now looking a very promising commodity space to be in, shareholders of the company Bramwell heads, Kasbah Resources, could be in for some good fortune themselves.
60 seconds with Wayne Bramwell
May 19 - 25, 2008
THREE people who have most influenced you in your career/life, and why?
An eye on production
May 12 - 18, 2008
IN CHOOSING a career path, Andrew Radonjic liked the idea of being a geologist – but zeroed in quickly on mine geology – and moving around. His predisposition towards establishing the economic credentials of mineral deposits, without initially getting caught up in solving any bigger geological puzzles, currently has him regularly traversing the country between his home-base of Perth, Western Australia, and the west coast of Tasmania.
60 seconds with Andrew Radonjic
May 12 - 18, 2008
WHICH technologies could most profoundly change the mining industry in future?
Bresser heads Overland, and snow
May 5 - 11, 2008
WHILE he may have once chosen a university in sunny Queensland rather than study in the cooler climes of Tasmania, geologist Hugh Bresser has had no qualms about taking the company he heads into Canada’s rather frigid Yukon Territory given the cold, hard cash offered by an advanced zinc project.
60 seconds with Hugh Bresser
May 5 - 11, 2008
WHO are three people who have most influenced you in your career/life?
Just getting started
April 28 - May 4, 2008
FIVE years into his tenure at Intellection, CEO Calvin Treacy doesn’t yet have his foot flat on the accelerator pedal, which is saying something for a company last week recognised by a leading Australian business magazine as one of the country’s 100 fastest growing start-ups.
60 seconds with Calvin Treacy
April 28 - May 4, 2008
NAME 2-3 people you regard as mentors, or people who have influenced you in your career?
Building in Brazil
April 21 - 27, 2008
THE severe skills shortage means having an operationally experienced, practical and well-connected executive heading a company focused on a region reportedly chock-full of development opportunities is an alluring mix. The trifecta in this case is Cornishman Tony Polglase, Avanco Resources, and Brazil.
60 seconds with Tony Polglase
April 21 - 27, 2008
THE three most influential people on your career?
Path leads to bigger future
April 14 - 20, 2008
IF students completing mining engineering courses are just pursuing $A100,000-a-year jobs in the industry they’re not doing it for the right reasons, says a former Western Australia School of Mines graduate, Andy Caruso. He should know. Seventeen years after getting his first job in the industry, Caruso is at the helm of a public company on the verge of making a multi-billion-dollar move from exploration to project development.
60 seconds with Andy Caruso
April 14 - 20, 2008
WHAT would you be doing if you weren’t working in the mining industry/in your current role?
Give me another Higginsville ... later this year
April 7 - 13, 2008
GIVEN that it looks like it is going to make a big success of its first acquisition, it won’t surprise to see Avoca Resources and its managing director Rohan Williams swamped by a deluge of corporate and project opportunities in the second half of 2008 after the Higginsville gold project begins pouring gold.
60 seconds with Rohan Williams
April 7 - 13, 2008
WHO are three people who have greatly influenced you in your career/life?
Bills sees high probability of success
March 31 - April 6, 2008
THERE has been nothing half-hearted about Emmerson Resources’ bid to put Tennant Creek back on investors’ radars. That intent was reinforced when experienced former WMC and BHP Billiton executive Rob Bills stepped up to the CEO/managing director’s plate in September last year.
60 seconds with Rob Bills
March 31 - April 6, 2008
THE past few years has spawned thousands of listed exploration companies, many of which now face very different equity/finance market conditions. Is the spawning season over? What happens next?
Digging deeper for deals
March 17 - 23, 2008
ROB Brierley is able to call on an attractive and important blend of mining and market experience as he scours the globe for a company-making acquisition for Australian minnow Carbine Resources.
60 seconds with Rob Brierley
March 17 - 23, 2008
WHO have been the three most influential people in your life and on your career to date?
Golden touch
March 10 - 16, 2008
PETER Marrone, who emigrated to Canada with his parents in 1965, once dreamed of being a doctor. But after a career as a corporate lawyer specialising in mergers and acquisitions with Toronto law firm Cassels Brock and Blackwell, and a spell running the investment banking business of Canaccord Adams, he now heads one of the most exciting gold companies in the industry.
60 seconds with Peter Marrone
March 10 - 16, 2008
IF China is set to be the world’s No.1 gold producer in five years, which countries will be No. 2 and No.3?
Egypt enters golden era
March 10 - 16, 2008
FOLLOWING his father around the backblocks of Wiluna as a child in the early 1980s fostered Josef El-Raghy’s love of the mining industry. And it’s probably as appropriate a preparation as any in Australia for harsh, hot environments, given El-Raghy now sits atop a company developing a plus-10 million ounce gold project in the Egyptian desert.
60 seconds with Josef El-Raghy
March 10 - 16, 2008
Who have been the three people who have most influenced you and your career to date?
Clifford finds himself a career
March 3 - 9, 2008
MICK Clifford could have ended up an architect but for the length of a queue at a careers night. Instead, the low-key geologist was closely involved with the best gold discovery in Australia for the past decade and now has his hands on a huge copper-molybdenum project in the USA.
60 seconds with Mick Clifford
March 3 - 9, 2008
WHAT'S the best and worst thing about being a geologist?
A NSW story
February 25 - March 2, 2008
GEOLOGISTS such as Chris Bonwick and Julian Hanna have made a pretty good fist of running mining companies. Rimas Kairaitis would still rather be out in the bush than stuck behind his office desk, but he’s warming nicely to the task of transforming YTC Resources into one of what he sees as an emerging wave of New South Wales-focused miners.
60 seconds with Rimas Kairaitis
February 25 - March 2, 2008
WHO are three people you’d like to be stuck down a mine with?
The all rounder
February 11 - 17, 2008
TALENTED people invariably achieve success at whatever they turn their hand to and the affable, modest and sporty Michael Anderson at Exco Resources appears no exception. Meaning, market vagaries aside, patient shareholders of the budding copper junior can look towards the future with some real optimism.
Digger or dealer?
February 4 - 10, 2008
THOSE who’ve pondered what might happen when a dealer replaces the “digger” at the helm of leading single-mine gold producer Dominion Mining may not have long to wait for an answer. Enter the dealer, Jonathan Shellabear.
Salt Creek backs fresh outlook
January 28 - February 3, 2008
THE callow Australian gold sector has a true believer in its ranks who thinks it has the potential to return, at least part-way, to some of its former glory. Naturally, Chris Cairns, the managing director of Integra Mining, thinks the company he heads is one of the contenders, with a major commitment to exploration excellence the key criteria for success.
60 seconds with Chris Cairns
January 28 - February 3, 2008
WHAT have been the best gold discoveries of recent times?
Gill relishes chance to build a leader
January 21 - 27, 2008
SIX months ago Matthew Gill stood at the bottom of the Hill 50 gold mine – about 1.6km underground – with Monarch Gold director John Davis thinking, “what the hell am I doing here?” Now that he’s officially in the seat as managing director of Monarch, Gill, one of the people at the centre of the Beaconsfield mine drama that erupted two years ago, is in no doubt about what he’s got to do next.
60 seconds with Matthew Gill
January 21 - 27, 2008
WHO is scarier, Michael Kiernan or David Koch?
Rogers ready to be a miner again
January 14 - 20, 2008
WITH veritable rivers of cash on offer at current nickel price levels, it is little wonder Albidon backers are keen to see the company’s Munali project in Zambia brought into production pronto. Cue Dale Rogers.
60 seconds with Dale Rogers
January 14 - 20, 2008
WHAT is your view on the nickel price in the longer term?
A mining engineer at the gate
December 17 - 23, 2007
TROY Resources looks to have pulled one out of the hat (or should that be out of the horse!) with the appointment of Paul Benson as the company’s new CEO. Mining engineer Benson has a classy CV, with his M&A experience shaping as significant as Troy targets a growth phase and a new era as an Australian and Canadian listed miner.
60 seconds with Paul Benson
December 17 - 23, 2007
ARE you confident about the outlook for commodity prices?
Metallica boss now has timing on his side
December 10 - 16, 2007
THE depths the market plumbed during the dark days of the late 1990s and early years of this century neither scarred the youthful looks of Andrew Gillies at Metallica Minerals nor dulled the ambitions of a managing director whose influences are among the crème de la crème of the Australian resources sector.
Vital pick-up
November 26 - December 2, 2007
WILL and Oliver Haslam know their dad is moving to a different type of mining company. He’s been managing more than 700 staff. Soon he’ll have 26. But that may not mean they get to see more of him.
60 seconds with Andy Haslam
November 26 - December 2, 2007
IS THE Beijing Olympics the finish line for the current mining boom, or just another marker?
Beyond first Bass
November 19 - 25, 2007
A GEOLOGIST whose experience spans the gamut from grass roots exploration to mine production, and one whose CV also entails some six years as a banker with Rothschild seems like the sort of person who might have a few clues about running a company in the resources sector.
60 seconds with Michael Rosenstreich
November 19 - 25, 2007
ARE you a paid up member of the “stronger for longer” club?
Batten down the hatches
November 12 - 18, 2007
CLIVE Jones has had mixed fortunes pegging mineral leases under Rio Tinto’s nose. The joint managing director of Western Australia iron ore explorer Cazaly Resources may have missed out on Shovelanna – the highly contentious WA property he thought he’d secured. But, with help from university mate Peter Batten, Jones is having a much better time of it in Namibia.
60 seconds with Peter Batten
November 12 - 18, 2007
IS THERE a moral or ethical question mark over exporting uranium to Russia, China or India?
Making the grade
November 5 - 11, 2007
YOU can’t overlook a name as synonymous as this one is with the Australian mining industry but, pedigree aside, this young managing director has traits that mark him as one to watch.
60 seconds with Matt Gauci
November 5 - 11, 2007
WHEN will significant uranium company consolidation get underway given the hundreds and hundreds of uranium companies worldwide that were spawned in 2005 and 2006?
The musical deal maker
October 29 - November 4, 2007
COVENTRY would have seemed a dreary world away to a 10-year-old boy after he moved to the “paradise” of northern Zambia with his family in the late 1960s.
60 seconds with Mark Stewart
October 29 - November 4, 2007
IS URANIUM the solution to global warming, or the most likely cause of the end of the world?
ReGENERATION
October 22 - 28, 2007
STARTING this week, HighGrade will produce a series of articles on the new generation of company chief executives, financial and technical leaders, and operations managers making their mark in and on the industry. For professional and personal insights, and perspectives on mining’s future, look out for ReGENERATION each week in HighGrade.
Flanagan and Flannery, saving the world
October 22 - 28, 2007
DAVID Flanagan could be the CEO of a big company. He’s got a $A32 million exploration budget for this year and $A90 million in the bank. He started advanced community consultation and environment management programs for a transition to mining before drilling even started at the company’s tenements. And he’s about to move into Newmont Mining Corp’s old 750sq.m office in West Perth – over the road from his current 220sq.m digs.
