Diggers & Dealers' anticipated digger of the year award has gone to Ramelius Resources, while De Grey Mining has notched deal of the year as the golden run continues.
Nuclear advocate Aidan Morrison has fired a shot at Andrew Forrest on the first morning of the Diggers & Dealers Mining forum, accusing the billionaire of “virtue signaling”.
The 34th annual Diggers & Dealers conference has kicked off in Kalgoorlie and although gold is the flavour of the year, the event has commenced with a panel on nuclear.
Goldmining executive Simon Lee will retire in November, after calling time on a prolific multi-decade career of success which has fingerprints across the sector in Australia and abroad.
A host of new equity partners have come on board at Kalgoorlie's Diggers & Dealers Mining Forum, including industry luminaries and conference veterans.
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Lithium success story Pilbara Minerals has been named 2023 Digger of the Year, as Allkem's $16 billion merger takes the Dealer guernsey and resources executive Neil Warburton wins the GJ Stokes award.
Diggers & Dealers 2023 kicks off in Australia's 'unofficial capital of mining' with a solid turnout and all eyes on the state's burgeoning critical minerals sector.
Mining industry veteran Ian Burston, who held numerous executive and board roles in Western Australia across five decades and received multiple awards, has died aged 87.
ANALYSIS: Another day, another front-page headline about sexual harassment in mining. It's clearly a major issue but where is the balance? What about industries with a bigger problem?
In a Diggers & Dealers first, exhibitors have been told to pack up early on the final day of the conference after a severe weather warning was issued for the Goldfields this morning.
Elizabeth Gaines says Fortescue has had boots on the ground at a prospective iron ore deposit in Gabon, firming up the company's exploration plans and a potential iron ore foothold in Africa.
Bill Beament has told stakeholders he has no aspirations to turn his undergound mining services business Develop Global into a ‘mining behemoth', at day two of Diggers & Dealers.
Labour shortages are tipped to prove a key theme at Diggers & Dealers this year, amid heightened expectations on environmental, social and governance matters in the resources industry.
Economist Dambisa Moyo has delivered a sobering keynote address to the Diggers & Dealers mining forum in Kalgoorlie, foreshadowing a period of low and slow global economic growth.
Australia's largest mining conference Diggers & Dealers will now be held in October at the Goldfields Arts Centre in Kalgoorlie, as the state relaxes its coronavirus restrictions.
Concerns over COVID-19 have led to the cancellation or postponement of more events in the state, including Australia's largest annual mining conference Diggers & Dealers, along with the Anzac Day services. The virus has also led to more businesses changing their working arrangements.
One of the nation's most respected economists reckons the tide may have turned for the WA economy, but falling metals prices and a global trade war could render that view obsolete.
UPDATED: Eastern Goldfields is expected to be confronted at next week's Diggers and Dealers conference by local contractors who claim they have not been paid by the Perth gold miner.
Diggers & Dealers chairman Nick Giorgetta says the forum has been assured by the state government that its August event in Kalgoorlie will go ahead, despite the venue's sudden closure by the state.
Regis Resources has announced a significant board restructure under which Nick Giorgetta will step down as chair and a new executive director will be appointed.
Kalgoorlie's Diggers & Dealers forum may not be for sale, officially, but the recent purchase of Cape Town's Mining Indaba conference for $84 million puts a value of at least $24 million on Diggers, and that would be hard price for the owner, Kate Stokes, to reject.
The fun started early at the annual Diggers & Dealers forum in Kalgoorlie yesterday with delegates bravely predicting a higher gold price, to which the market responded by driving the gold pric
