The 2013 Craig Oliver Award

THE CONFERENCE CALLER: Winner of this year’s Craig Oliver Award was hardly a surprise.

The Craig Oliver Award for 2013 was presented at the RIU Explorers Conference to Sirius Resources.

Siruis ran home from a select field including: Doray Minerals, Northern Star Resources, Papillion Resources, Phoenix Gold, Regis Resources, and Sandfire Resources.

The award was created in memory of Craig Oliver, former non-executive director of Sundance Resources, who passed away in 2010 when a plane carrying the entire Sundance Resources board crashed in the Congo, killing all on board.

It is presented at the Explorers Conference each year to a small to mid-cap Australian mining company which has excelled in several areas of performance, including exploration, mining, community engagement and environmental performance.

This year’s award was present by Oliver’s two eldest daughters Hannah and Georgia.

 

“We are privileged, honoured and humbled by this,” Sirius Resources managing director Mark Bennet said on receiving the award.

“We’ve come a long way in a short time and the nice thing about this award is that it remembers Craig and his colleagues and his community.

“He met an unfortunate situation doing what he loved doing, what we all love doing, and we are a big family.

“Thanks very much, we hope to do the award justice with what we do.”