Ken Gooding's Fifth Column

Fifth Column

Publishing Date: 12 Nov 2009 10:41am GMT
Author: Mining Journal

Fifth Column is the Mining Journal's long-standing weekly column from the former Financial Times mining journalist, Ken Gooding, who looks behind the news at the industry's leading decision makers. Available exclusively to Mining Journal subscribers, it provides unique insight to the stories behind key industry players.

His most recent articles:

Date	Article Headline
06/11/09	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
30/10/09	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
23/10/09	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
16/10/2009	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
09/10/09	Taking Sides Fred Roux, one of South Africa’s best known executives, says that in his long association with the mining industry – 40 years or so – he has never before experienced such an overwhelming reaction. He is talking about the stand he is taking against Firebird Management, a specialist asset management group based in New York.