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Kimberley Metals hits gold-copper
/in Uncategorized /by Wally GrahamOUT AND ABOUT: The folk at precious and base metals-focused Kimberley Metals had a spring in their step as they roamed the Diggers & Dealers conference this morning. The reason for the company’s buoyant mood was its announcement today of results from the third diamond drill hole of a drilling program currently underway between the […]
Digger Award: Independence Group.
/in Uncategorized /by Wally GrahamThe Digger Award for 2011 was presented to gold and base metals-focused Independence Group. The Digger Award is presented to companies that have achieved corporate success through strong management demonstrating innovation and sustainability. The Chris Bonwick led entity has developed a stable of mines in the Kambalda region, including the Long nickel mine. It has […]
Dealmaker Award: Ivanhoe Capital Corporation
/in Uncategorized /by Wally GrahamThe Dealmaker Award is traditionally presented to companies that have been able to unlock value of transactions through corporate takeovers, mergers or other transactions. This year Diggers & Dealers opted to recognise the entrepreneurial skills on show by Ivanhoe as it develops the Oyu Tolgio copper and Ovoot Tolgoi coal projects in Mongolia while unlocking […]
GJ Stokes Memorial Award: George Jones
/in Uncategorized /by Wally GrahamThis award recognises the positive contribution by an individual, or company, to the development of the resources sector. This year it was presented to George Jones. “George Jones has had a remarkable career and we are all well aware of the exceptional leadership that George showed last year after the air crash tragedy that took […]
Best Emerging Company: Gold Road Resources
/in Uncategorized /by Wally GrahamThe 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 […]
Media Award: Peter Klinger (The West Australian)
/in Uncategorized /by Wally GrahamKnown as ‘The Corporal’ to the media pack Klinger has been covering the Diggers & Dealers conference for more years than he cares to admit. It’s a fitting reward to a journalist who began his career working around the corner from the conference at the Kalgoorlie Miner newspaper. During this time he was awarded the […]
Panoramic broadens Gidgee outlook
/in Uncategorized /by Wally GrahamOUT AND ABOUT: Not all the news at Diggers & Dealers comes from the companies presenting their power points in the main auditorium. Gold aspirant Panoramic Resources is telling everybody it bumps into at the conference that it plans to bring its recently-acquired Gidgee gold project back into production within three years with a forecasted […]
Western Areas flies Southern Cross
/in Uncategorized /by Wally GrahamOUT AND ABOUT: There were canapés and Caronas flying between the booths of Southern Cross Goldfields and Western Areas when it was announced that the latter would be acquiring 70 per cent of the former’s nickel rights across much of its tenement portfolio in the Marda and Southern Cross regions of Western Australia. Western Areas […]
Resources Sector risks losing assets
/in Uncategorized /by Wally GrahamOUT AND ABOUT: What is akin to making sure your name tag is sewn into your underpants the new Personal Property Securities Act (PPSA) is looming as a danger to resources companies that are unprepared for its introduction. If the mining industry didn’t have enough to worry about with the Minerals Resource Rent Tax and […]
Altona makes Little Eva sing
/in Uncategorized /by Wally GrahamOUT AND ABOUT: There was plenty of action around the booth of copper exploration play Altona Mining today following its announcement of further decent drilling results from its100% owned Roseby copper project near Mt Isa in Queensland. The results came from an ongoing RC drilling program at Roseby and come on the heels of a […]