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Thompson moves on

SIMON Thompson, widely expected to succeed Tony Trahar as Anglo American Corp's chief executive but lost

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30 MAR 2007

Diamond-exploration guru

CHRIS Jennings helped to discover fi ve gold mines, a fl uospar mine and several base metal, uranium

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30 MAR 2007

Xstrata: Dishing out the winnings

BIG, big bonus time again at Xstrata plc as seven executives collect more than £26 million between them

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23 MAR 2007

Digging deep at ACR

IT'S ALWAYS disquieting when someone appointed to a high-profi le job by a company quits shortly after

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23 MAR 2007

Watching Watchhorn

MARC Watchorn originally had no intention of becoming a geologist. He enrolled for a chemistry course

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09 MAR 2007

Premature report

Adam Fleming is alive and well. I have that on the best authority. Because, a few weeks ago after I inaccurately

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09 MAR 2007

Old Friends

AT FIRST sight, it seems surprising that Philip Pascall, chairman and chief executive of First Quantum

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02 MAR 2007

Family affair

The Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) will hand its coveted 2007 “Bill Dennis Prospector

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02 MAR 2007

All the presidents' man

LOOKING back on a career of spectacular highs and calamitous lows that have made him one of the industry's

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23 FEB 2007

Call on the slopes

Charles Waterhouse Goodyear IV – who prefers to be called Chip – is BHPB's accidental chief executive.

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16 FEB 2007

Let the search begin

So, the search is on for the next chief executive of BHP Billiton plc: the biggest job in the business.

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16 FEB 2007

Juggling interests

RICHARD Ralph has had an extraordinary introduction to life as a mining industry executive. The former

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09 FEB 2007

The new face of Mining Journal

YOU'VE noticed there's a different face on Mining Journal's comment page – that of our new editor, Michelle

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09 FEB 2007

Bailing out

Peter Flack, one of the group of people credited with revitalising the South African gold-mining industry

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02 FEB 2007

Still kicking tyres

PIERRE Lassonde is stepping back from his hectic life as president of Newmont Mining Corp, the world's

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26 JAN 2007

Realistic view

PIERRE Lassonde dismisses the idea that he is a “gold bull.”� He insists he takes a realistic view of

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26 JAN 2007

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