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Article	Type	Published Date	Rating
Career choices Ian Cockerill, one of South Africa’s most respected executives, has puzzled some observers by his recent job choices	Fifth Column Article	12 Mar 2010	0 Stars
Scottish opportunities Chris Sangster recalls the time when it was all going so well for him – until disaster struck	Fifth Column Article	05 Mar 2010	0 Stars
BSG: Executive chop There's recently been a big turnover of senior executives at both Bateman Engineering NV and Gabriel Resources Ltd. Might there be a connection? For the shake-up at Bateman follows the company's de-listing from London's AIM after which diamond and property billionaire Beny Steinmetz's BSG group increased its shareholding to 90%. Meanwhile, the boardroom departures from Gabriel followed closely behind an announcement that BSG had taken a major position in that company.	Fifth Column Article	25 Feb 2010	0 Stars
Spot of bother Billionaire Clive Palmer has been creating so many news headlines in the past couple of weeks that you can be forgiven for not noticing there’s a little spot of bother at one of his pet projects – Gladstone Pacific Nickel	Fifth Column Article	19 Feb 2010	0 Stars
A difference of opinion When Jon Parker unexpectedly resigned last month as managing director of Norton Gold Fields – one of the biggest Australian-owned producers of the precious metal – because of boardroom disagreements, some investors took fright	Fifth Column Article	12 Feb 2010	0 Stars
African Dust Brad Sampson says: “I know it’s a generality, but it seems most Australians see Africa as one, scary country, rather than as a group of countries that can be very different from one another.”	Fifth Column Article	05 Feb 2010	0 Stars
Breaking new ground Nick Graham is a geologist with more than his fair share of successful exploration behind him	Fifth Column Article	29 Jan 2010	0 Stars
Farming out Graham Birch pauses for just a moment when I ask him to name the worst investment he ever made.	Fifth Column Article	22 Jan 2010	0 Stars
Revolving Doors In what must surely set a record for a listed mining company, HudBay Minerals Inc will soon be appointing its fourth chief executive officer (CEO) in only two years	Fifth Column Article	15 Jan 2010	0 Stars
Serial founder When Miles Kennedy resigned as non-executive chairman of Perth-based Sandfire Resources NL, the Australian media immediately linked his departure with an incident three weeks previously when it was reported that blows were exchanged between Mr Kennedy and Sandfire’s chief executive, Karl Simich, who ended that lively lunch with a bloodied nose.	Magazine Article	08 Jan 2010	0 Stars
Platinum clarity The recent announcement by Petaquilla Minerals Ltd (PML) that five of its six directors and its corporate secretary had all resigned on the same day contained no explanation for this mass exodus	Fifth Column Article	18 Dec 2009	0 Stars
Transforming Moose Pasture Tim Coughlin says that working for AngloGold in Columbia at the end of the 1990s whetted his appetite for what he describes as “frontier exploration”. He points out that today the probability of discovering big, world-class mining projects is higher in prospective, yet neglected, regions – for example, some parts of the former Soviet Union (FSU) that are now developing free market economies.	Fifth Column Article	11 Dec 2009	0 Stars
Jack of all trades Bob Foster says they take soccer seriously in Africa. He vividly remembers the time he was refereeing a local African league match in Zimbabwe, when the home team was being loudly supported by a local witchdoctor haranguing the players while brandishing a ceremonial axe.	Fifth Column Article	04 Dec 2009	0 Stars
Street wise Kerry Stokes has such a high profile in Australia that most media commentators automatically describe his exploration company as Kerry Stokes’ Iron Ore Holdings	Fifth Column Article	27 Nov 2009	0 Stars
Energy placement Rio Tinto put a quartet of its seasoned and long-serving, but relatively youthful, executives in charge of Cloud Peak Energy Inc (CPE), the US coal producer it expects to spin off and list on the New York Stock Exchange today (Friday)	Fifth Column Article	20 Nov 2009	0 Stars
Drama Continues The furore over corporate upheavals at Anglo American Corp and Impala Platinum had scarcely begun to fade away before two more dramas involving top level executives began to enthral the South African mining industry.	Fifth Column Article	13 Nov 2009	0 Stars
Greek surprise The departure of David Reading as chief executive of Toronto- and AIM-listed European Goldfields Ltd (EGL) is puzzling some of his fans	Fifth Column Article	06 Nov 2009	0 Stars
Game on There probably has never been a time when inhabitants of the Johannesburg mining village have had so much to gossip about – there has been such a great deal of corporate drama and so many well known executives have been ‘let go’, or booted out, in the past week or so	Fifth Column Article	30 Oct 2009	0 Stars
Australian fight The boardroom bust-up, or stoush as they call it in Australia, at Troy Resources NL is a bit different because of the long and close relationships between some of the people involved	Fifth Column Article	23 Oct 2009	0 Stars
Inco diaspora According to Tom Griffis, many of the former executives of Inco Ltd who left the group after it was taken over by Vale are keen to build another substantial Canadian nickel company	Fifth Column Article	16 Oct 2009	0 Stars