As a columnist, it would be remiss of me not to write about AI, such is the impact it has or could have on almost every aspect of our lives. So here goes… On the operational side of the gold sector, there are plenty of obvious ways it will impact the industry –...
As I wrote in my March column, there’s a growing maturity to the public-private relationship in African mining. The sector is still not without its challenges – local content, resource nationalism creep, corruption, infrastructure gaps, regulatory inefficiency – but...
Recent events in the Australian gold sector have shown just how much its approach to equity investors has changed in recent years. The last 15 years have been a remarkable period for homegrown gold producers. You only have to flick through a 2011 issue of Paydirt...
Paydirt is proud of the work it has done to raise the profile of Australian-African trade and investment relations over the last 25 years but for all the success, there is still much work to be done. When Paydirt started Africa Down Under in 2003, the...
It’s 16 years since the Rudd-Gillard-Rudd Federal Labor Government managed to rile the entire Australian mining industry with its resources super profits tax policy and its Albanese successor appears intent on reviving the spirit of those times. In May, the Federal...
The lithium cycle has turned again, perhaps proving the Australian sector was not facing the existential threat so many of us feared. This time last year, the local lithium sector was hanging onto life. Mines and processing plants were closing, exploration had dried...
