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Straight talker

In his final Fifth Column, Ken Gooding takes a look at the colourful and sometimes controversial career of Wayne McCrae Full story...

Faith in exploration

In this week's Fifth Column, Ken Gooding looks back at the career of Ken Thorsen. Full story...

Continuing to trade up

In this week's Fifth Column, Ken Gooding looks at the career of Brian Hinchcliffe, who, at the beginning of the 1980s, was a trader at J Aron and Co when he noticed a report in the Northern Miner newspaper about Breakwater Resources Full story...

Rothschild on war path

In this week's Fifth Column, Ken Gooding looks at the enthralling bust-up between Nat Rothschild, the aristocratic billionaire financier, and the Bakrie family, one of richest in Indonesia and also his partners in London listed Bumi plc Full story...

Doing own thing

In this week's Fifth Column, Ken Gooding looks at the career of Chris Fraser, who says he decided to take his career in a different direction after being lead adviser on the US$2.5 billion initial development capital financing for Andrw Forest's Fortescue Metals Group Full story...

New story to tell

In this week's Fifth Column, Ken Gooding notes that Leanne Baker took over as chief executive of Sutter Gold Mining Inc on Tuesday this week. He looks at her career. Full story...

Having a plan

In this week's 5th Column, Ken Gooding looks at the fulfilling career of Colin Bird. Full story...

Next target for Johnson

Ken Googing notes in this week's Fifth Column that you have to kiss a lot of frogs before you find your prince. B2Gold Corp signed confidentiality agreements with about 170 exploration and mining companies in the past three years and came up with only one that ticked all the boxe: Auryx Gold Corp. Full story...

Mongolian push

As recently as February last year that Hunnu Coal Ltd listed on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX), selling its shares for A20cents each. Now Hunnu is on the receiving end of a friendly, A$477 million Full story...

Top dollar

Gold at US$18,000/oz? That’s what Roland Phelps has been getting Full story...

Doing themselves out of a job

In this week's Fifth Column, Ken Gooding notes that one of the unusual aspects of the proposed merger of GGG Resources plc and Auzex Resources Ltd is that the chairmen and managing directors of both companies lose their job Full story...
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