This month's featured issue February 2012 Download Contents and Index Subscribe Now

Inside this month's issue

Cover Story

Once a run-of-the-mill Western Australian junior gold miner, the last seven years have seen Troy Resources Ltd take on an increasingly Latin American flavour with mines in Brazil and now Argentina. Bianca Thair visited the company’s South American operations with chief executive Paul Benson to find out exactly why the company had spread its wings... read more

Skills

If there is one issue more pressing than any other for the Australian resources industry it is the skills crisis. With 75,000 more workers needed for the sector in coming years there appears no avoiding the impending crisis. There is hope however and Paydirt looks at some of the innovative programmes helping to plug the gap... read more

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Image Resources NL has relooked at its North Perth Basin project in a different economic light. Mark Andrews joined managing director George Sakalidis on site to discuss the new range of possibilities now on offer... read more

Uranium Conference

While other sectors were experiencing ups and downs in share price movements in 2011, uranium companies were on a consistent retreat following the Fukishima nuclear incident and its aftermath. Paydirt’s 2012 Uranium Conference – to be held at the Adelaide Hilton on February 28-29 – is likely to generate plenty of debate on where uranium equities are headed as well as posing more difficult questions on the future of uranium and nuclear energy around the world... read more