Ron Manners’ ideas 
and adventures

Articles: Mining

It just needs more drilling!

Ron prefaced this speech, presented at the Mineral Drilling Association of Australia Symposium in Busselton, by stating: “As I haven’t been given any...

Vertical burial Mannwest

Mining Manners: My elusive career

I gave this keynote speech as part of Business News‘ Success and Leadership Series in 2004. At the time I was Chairman of...

Hundred Heroes

This speech was made by Ron at an Australian Mining Hall of Fame launch and recruitment function. He addressed supporters of Hundred Heroes,...

Mannwest Hundred Heroes

Australia’s Mining Hall of Fame

Australia’s Mining Hall of Fame (a lost opportunity — Oct 2017?) I gave this presentation to the Mining 2000 Forum in Melbourne. At...

Mining Hall of Fame Mannwest

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...

Mining Icons: Ron Manners

This profile of Ron was published in Australian Minerals and Energy Annual Review 1997/1998 as part of their Mining Icons series. If anyone...

Turning ideas into gold bars

This speech was presented at the World’s Best Practice in Mining and Processing Conference, The Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, Sydney, May...

Turning ideas into gold bars Mannwest

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

And now for the good news: A report from the Kalgoorlie Goldfields

Some things, like government making fickle decisions, never seem to change. In this 1993 column in bi-monthly publication, Australian Drilling, Ron shared some...