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PUBLIsHeR’s note

We at Paydirt Media have enjoyed many
proud moments throughout the course of our

26-year history and the Westrac Gala Dinner

to conclude Diggers & Dealers 2020 was

recently added to the fond collection

of memories for the company.

Diggers & Dealers chairman Jim
Walker, Paydirt’s Dominic Piper
and Perth Mint chief executive
Richard Hayes

he recognition came at the gala dinner on October 14 under sands of kilometres each year to cover and report on mining and
Tthe makeshift tent adorned on the perimeter of the Goldfields exploration projects. Our journalists have visited some of the
Art Centre with Paydirt editor, Dominic Piper, awarded the 2020 most remote projects in the world – from West Africa, through
Diggers & Dealers Media Award for his unrelenting commitment Latin America and across Asia, and even to the northern most
to both company and industry. parts of mainland Europe.
Dominic joined Paydirt Media 15 years ago and has been There would be few parts of Australia that Dominic and his
editor of Australia’s Paydirt and Gold Mining Journal magazines team have not visited – whether it has been a small exploration
since 2010. project in Tasmania or a major mine site in the north-west of
Tributes flowed for Dominic well into the night and thereafter Western Australia. Their approach in Australia and abroad is to
from friends, family and acquaintances, with none prouder than report the facts and tell a good story; warts and all.
Paydirt executive chairman Bill Repard. As both a publisher and businessman, I tend to think that there
are too many awards handed out around across the mining sec-
In my role as publisher of Paydirt and Gold Mining Journal I tor, and indeed many other industry groups. Having said that,
have to admit that I seldom have the time to contribute words or the Diggers & Dealers awards for best miner, dealer and emerg-
comments to our magazines. A break with tradition this month ing company, along with the media award, are the pinnacle of
as I would like to acknowledge our editor, Dominic Piper, whose the resources sector, and Dominic’s award is recognition, albeit
contribution to the mining sector was recognised at last month’s in my opinion, long overdue, of his professionalism as a journal-
Diggers & Dealers Gala Dinner in Kalgoorlie. ist, editor, leader and promoter of our industry.
Dominic was awarded the 2020 Media Award in recognition of
his work as a journalist and for his leadership of our magazines. See Diggers & Dealers 2020 event wrap and other award
In normal non-COVID times Dominic and his colleagues, Mark winners starting on page 84
Andrews and Michael Washbourne, travel hundreds of thou-

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