From Cobar to Colorado: Aussie Tom Palmer’s rise to global mining CEO
He led a foreign raid on the nation’s top gold miner. But Tom Palmer is also the Cobar kid who wants Newmont to be the top gold pick for Australian investors.
The Gladstone heat wasn’t the only thing making Newmont chief Tom Palmer sweat back in 1997.
Commissioning of an expensive new potline inside the Boyne aluminium smelter wasn’t going to plan, and the big boss was riding Palmer and the rest of the smelter team hard.
Peter KerResources reporterPeter Ker covers resource companies for The Australian Financial Review, based in Melbourne. Connect with Peter on Twitter. Email Peter at pker@afr.com
