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The Hermit Kingdom welcomes miners back

2022 has brought a series of key conferences back, after a long pause, but perhaps none was more resonant than Diggers and Dealers, in Western Australia, which just six months ago was closed to international visitors after one of the longest and toughest travel bans of the pandemic.

The Hermit Kingdom welcomes miners back The Hermit Kingdom welcomes miners back The Hermit Kingdom welcomes miners back The Hermit Kingdom welcomes miners back The Hermit Kingdom welcomes miners back

As Nathan Richardson describes in this month's cover story, perhaps no mining jurisdiction in the world punches so far above its weight as Western Australia. With a population of 2.