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Slings and arrows

THIS is how markets work. Regal Petroleum reported that its most important oil discovery, in Greece,

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27 MAY 2005

BIG personality

MENTION of Alan Bond (see above) reminds me that people who have met him recently reckon he seems to

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20 MAY 2005

Financial engineer

GRAHAM Mascall has spent much of the past three years lining up the US$155 million acquisition of the

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20 MAY 2005

Protest vote

SOME major shareholders sent two very clear messages to Xstrata at the diversified mining group's annual

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13 MAY 2005

Technology player

ANDREW Woollett is about to hit the fund-raising trail again. He'll be looking for about £13 million

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13 MAY 2005

A model story

THERE'S no doubting Melissa Sturgess's determination. Juggling with the tricky business of being pregnant

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06 MAY 2005

Gone fishin'

SIMON Lawrence is leaving Gabriel Resources, and will take a long sabbatical before deciding what to

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06 MAY 2005

Just a misfortune

TO LOSE a managing director and a chief executive all in the space of three weeks is, to say the least,

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29 APR 2005

Back to the Pilbara

GORDON Toll is opting for a complete change of direction. This comes after nine years working with the

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29 APR 2005

A leap in the light

JIM Wall vividly recalls one of the most memorable battles between a junior and a major mining group.

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22 APR 2005

Carefree to careful

NOW this is unusual. Someone who has given up the carefree life of a journalist, with its free drinks,

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22 APR 2005

Nice work

PHRASES such as “expect a shareholder backlash”� and “outrage”� are being bandied about in some UK newspapers

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15 APR 2005

Platinum purist

ED HASLAM, who spent 23 years with Lonmin, ending up as chief executive before retiring in April last

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15 APR 2005

It could be you

I'M QUOTING here because I couldn't write it better myself. “Scotsman Harry Dobson, 57, and a partner

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08 APR 2005

Golden Boys

DON McKinnon reckons he personally staked 22,000 claims back in the late 1970s on ground near Lake Superior

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08 APR 2005

Adieu

THERE seems to have been a serious bust-up on the board of Vedanta, the first Indian mining and metals

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01 APR 2005

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