Best Emerging Company: Gold Road Resources

The criteria for this award, which was first awarded in 2008 are that the company will have a market capitalisation of less than $250 million, be assessed as having a strong and sustainable future and be presenting at the Diggers & Dealers Mining Forum.

Gold Road Resources have been something of a talking point around the alcoves of the conference with the usual response to its name being mentioned being, “they seem to be doing something interesting”.

Gold Road is a gold exploration company focussed on fast-tracking development of the Yamarna Belt, covering more than 5,000 square kilometres of the Yamarna greenstone belt in Western Australia.

The company has already discovered 16 separate high-grade gold projects on the Yamarna Belt – and has only explored less than one per cent of its ground holding so far.

It has found grades up to 1,000 grams per tonne gold with some mineralisation from surface.