Hope for gold

Gold Corporation CEO Don Mackay-Coghill and WMC executive general manager, Peter Johnston are among those maintaining faith in gold. As you would expect.

They delivered their “don’t listen to the doomsayers” message to the opening of an historic exhibition, the Impact of Gold on Western Australia, at the Perth Mint.

Then Resources Minister Colin Barnett came out and expressed similar views — or perhaps hopes? Stage two of the State’s lucrative gold tax depends on prices bouncing back by July 2000.