Two members of The Gold Industry Group, The Perth Mint and Gold Fields, have proudly secured their spots among the highly anticipated list of the Top 101 Workplaces for Women in 2024.
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The heart of Australia's gold industry, Kalgoorlie, once again played home to the remarkable three-day spectacle of Diggers & Dealers 2023, held from August 7 to 9.
With many gold mining companies taking centre stage, the event proved to be a resounding success, reaffirming its status as a cornerstone gathering for the global mining industry.
Gold mining industry leaders are embracing an opportunity to establish a competitive advantage over other commodity miners by having the safest and most inclusive workplaces in the resources sector.
Vulnerable and accountable leaders are key to psychologically safe workplaces according to panellists at the Gold Industry Group’s Leadership Breakfast during the 2022 Diggers and Dealers Mining Forum, highlighting the need for industry to look forward and work on solutions together.
We recently spoke with Perth Mint Acting CEO Jane King, to traverse her journey as the first female CEO in the company’s 123 years of operation and discuss her focus on wellbeing, sustainability, diversity and inclusion.
As Acting CEO, Jane’s focus is to keep the business running while seeing the business and our people through this difficult COVID period.
The Gold Industry Group (GIG)’s 2021 Great Diversity Debate unpacked one of the hottest topics to hit the workplace since the pandemic, dissecting the virtues versus pitfalls of working from home in front of hundreds of industry colleagues at The Perth Mint, in conjunction with Women in Mining and Resources WA.
GIG Chair and Gold Fields VP Legal and Compliance Kelly Carter led the industry panel to tackle the topic ‘Working from home – a golden opportunity or a cage with gold bars?’ resulting in a surprising win.
We recently spoke to Gold Industry Group Gold Class Facilitator and The Perth Mint Group Manager Organisational and Cultural Development Kristen Potter about her role in driving the Company’s employee wellbeing program and her journey in Australia’s gold industry.
After a wildly successful national tour in 2019, the Gold Industry Group’s Great Diversity Debate returns this Friday night to focus on one of the hottest topics to hit the workplace since the pandemic.
Is working from home a golden opportunity or a cage with gold bars?
The 2020 Women in Mining WA (WIMWA) Summit held in September was backed by Gold Industry Group members IGO, Gold Fields, Northern Star Resources and Regis Resources and featured insightful speakers from around the world addressing current challenges experienced by both women and men in the workplace.
This year’s Summit tackled various key topics of workplace culture around diversity, leadership, mental health and adaptivity.
A powerhouse panel of five leading industry businesswomen shared their insights on Indigenous Relations to a sold-out crowd at the Western Australian Mining Club’s luncheon last month, emphasizing the need for visible role models and a dedicated business council.
It was the Club’s first in-person event to be held since February 2020 due to the State’s COVID-19 restrictions, and was also live-streamed to interstate and international viewers unable to travel into WA.
In recognition of International Women’s Day on Sunday 8 March 2020, KCGM will light the Mt Charlotte headframe purple, as a unique way to commemorate the day and highlight this year’s theme #EachforEqual.
The Kalgoorlie-Boulder community are encouraged to view the headframe from sunset on the Saturday evening until dawn on Sunday 9 March 2020.
St Barbara is championing women’s role in the workplace, having received the Workplace Gender Equality Agency’s ‘Employer of Choice for Gender Equality’ citation for the sixth consecutive year.
Out of 119 organisations, St Barbara was the only mining company to receive the citation.
The Gold Industry Group’s popular Women in Gold Great Diversity Debate hit the road this year, expanding from its original host city of Perth to both Sydney and Melbourne, with a diverse panel of 12 speakers and hundreds of guests from across the nation joining the #womeningold19 conversation.
Since the GIG’s inaugural event in 2016, the debate has quickly become one of the most influential diversity events on Australia’s mining calendar, this year amplifying the topic three-fold crossing three States.
The Gold Industry Group’s Women in Gold Great Diversity Debate will be held in Melbourne for the first time, as part of a national tour, on Friday 15 November at River’s Edge.
With an expected crowd of more than 100 guests, the inaugural debate will see diversity take centre stage as a panel of four leading industry speakers discuss whether a diversity debate that begins and ends with gender is doomed to fail.
The Gold Industry Group’s Women in Gold Great Diversity Debate will be held in Sydney for the first time, as part of a national tour, on Thursday 14 November at Untied.
With an expected crowd of more than 150 guests, the inaugural debate will thrust diversity into the spotlight as a panel of four leading industry speakers take to the stage to explore whether a diversity debate that begins and ends with gender is doomed to fail.
Now one of the largest and most influential events on the mining industry calendar, the Gold Industry Group’s annual Women in Gold Great Diversity Debate enters its fourth year in Perth, this time exploring whether a diversity debate that begins and ends with gender is doomed to fail.
The contemporary discussions, hosted in conjunction with Women in Mining WA, will once again be held in front of over 300 guests at the historic Perth Mint this Friday night.
The Gold Industry Group (GIG)’s popular annual Women in Gold Great Diversity Debate will not only be held in Perth in November, but will travel to Sydney and Melbourne, with 12 speakers taking to the stage in engaging and thought-provoking discussions.
The GIG’s inaugural event in 2016 attracted more than 300 gold industry professionals and has since become one of the largest and most influential diversity events on the mining industry calendar.
The 2018 ‘100 Global Inspirational Women in Mining’ were announced in London earlier this week by Women in Mining which featured seven of Australia’s gold powerhouse leaders including our very own Vice Chairperson Kelly Carter.
Gold Industry Group members recognised in the top 100 as inspirational role models for future generations of mining women were Gold Fields' Kelly Carter, St Barbara Limited's Meryl Jones, Ausdrill's Alex Atkins, KCGM's Shannon Youd, Newcrest Mining's Gabriela Love and Xiaoling Liu and KPMG’s Denise McComish.