Diggers and Dealers

Confidence in a booming sector was on show for all to see at last week's Diggers and Dealers conference in Kalgoorlie, as Sharon Kemp reports

If it was promoted on a Broadway billboard, Diggers and Diggers 2005 would have starred the vaudevillian duo Andrew Forrest and Michael ‘Lucky Legs' Kiernan, a Mongolian trapeze a

It seems common for deals to be struck between mining junior and major, or banker and miner, in Kalgoorlie pubs during Diggers and Dealers, and for gossip, share tips and takeover

Follow the money and you discover a class difference in the resources industry not unlike that which dominates the Australian landscape.

After years of delay, the sale of Newcrest Mining's 22.22 per cent holding in the $1 billion-plus Boddington gold prospect could dictate whether the long-delayed project is finally able to proceed.