Ron Manners’ ideas 
and adventures

Articles: Business

Mining in Kalgoorlie 1999: Confronting a pebble or a mountain?

This presentation was given at the 1999 Mining in the Goldfields – Opportunities and Challenges conference, and talked about recent mineral discoveries, the...

Where are our leaders?

In the late 90s mining was clearly seen as the driver of Australia’s economic growth, as shown in this presentation given to attendees...

Do smaller companies do it better?

This is part of a seminar led by Ron as part of the Normandy Group Mining Conference in Fremantle, on April 22, 1998....

The mining industry: A global community, from an Australian’s view

Ron delivered this speech to the Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada in Toronto, Ontario in March 1997. It’s an educational experience for...

Australia Mannwest

Diggers and Dealers 1996

The Diggers and Dealers conference is a big event on the mining industry calendar. Held in Australia’s unofficial gold capital, Kalgoorlie, it’s a...

Accountants: Australia needs you!

It’s ‘accrual’ world. Especially when you’re asked to address the Australian Society of CPA’s Resource Conference. This speech was delivered in October 1994...

Gold ‘n’ Dollars: the Kalgoorlie connection

These lessons in free enterprise for Australia are part of an address on gold mining in Kalgoorlie and Chile. Delivered by Ron Manners...

Get a hat

For a guy who is more interested in the future than the past, I can’t understand how I keep being asked to delve...

Get a Hat Mannwest

Taxes, taxes and damned taxes

This article was printed in the Australian Journal of Mining in October 1992. Editor Peter Barrett prefaced it by writing the following: “Taken...

Barnacles on the backside of progress

This cheeky industry analysis was presented at Kalgoorlie: The Next 100 Years, an Association of Mining and Exploration Companies (AMEC) sponsored event held...

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