It is a question which, in the mining sector, is always under interpretation. The Hedley Widdup Lion Selection clock is a great visualisation of the mining sector’s boom-bust cycle – the problem is there is no telling just how quickly the hands are moving. In the...
Given I regularly wrote about the greenshoots emerging for juniors during the long downturn, it is only fair that I take a contrarian standpoint while the sector enjoys the greatest period in its history Don’t get me wrong, I am not predicting the end of the gold...
I’m filing this editorial from Denver; Colorado having spent the last few days at the Mining Americas Forum in the US state There were plenty of Australian companies at the event, and even more at the preceding Beaver Creek Precious Metals Summit, also in Colorado....
The September issue of Paydirt went to print as the Australian Federal Government launched into its economic reform roundtable in Canberra, billed as the most important meeting since the Hawke Government’s National Economic Summit in 1983. The Hawke summit is now...
As old alliances and economic ties are redrawn or torn up, Australia has a chance to improve relations with Africa. And the Federal Government could do worse than lean on its mining sector to provide support. Australian-African relations have never been described as...
I don’t want to sound dramatic, but there have been times over the last few years when I wondered if the exploration industry model as we know it is broken and set for the biggest change in a generation. Commodity prices have rarely been higher. Gold is the obvious...
