Reality Check

FEATURE: If the adage ‘three strikes and you're out' applied to the gold mining industry, the curtains would already have been drawn; but some determined locals are fighting on.

FEATURE: Star in name, star in nature; it has been a rapid rise for one of the state's major players.

FEATURE: Les Davis and Bill Beament are two of the Western Australian gold industry's most influential people, but the person who has infinitely more power over gold in WA than the chief executives of Silver Lake and Northern Star doesn't live here.