Ron Manners
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Ronald B. Manners is an Australian businessman with over 50 years experience in the mining industry and is founder and Executive Director of the Mannkal Economic Education Foundation, an Australian free-market think tank.[1]
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[edit] Life and career
Ron Manners was born in Kalgoorlie, Australia, to a family that had a long association with the mining town. His grandfather, W.G. Manners, the son of a Ballarat prospector, headed West in the late 19th century and established a mining and engineering business, W.G. Manners & Co, in 1895. A fourth generation prospector, Manners studied electrical engineering at the Kalgoorlie School of Mines before assuming management of the family business in 1955. He expanded and diversified the company which has evolved to become the Mannwest Group. Between 1972 and 1995 he floated several Australian listed mining companies, notably Croesus Mining NL. During his tenure as chairman, the company produced 1.275 million ounces of gold and paid 11 dividends.[2]
Manners is Emeritus Chairman and a Patron of the Australian Prospectors and Mining Hall of Fame, a $25 million project completed as part of Australia’s Centenary of Federation celebrations in 2001.[3][4] He is a Fellow of both the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, and the Australian Institute of Company Directors, and his contributions to industry and Australia have been marked by several awards including being elected as a “Mining Legend” at the 2005 Excellence in Mining & Exploration Conference in Sydney.[5]
In addition to his mining interests, Manners has pursued an interest in economic education, establishing the Mannkal Economic Education Foundation in 1997. He is an active member of the Mont Pelerin Society and is on the Co-ordinating Committee for the Commonwealth Study Conference.
In 2010 he was appointed to the Board of Overseers for the Atlas Economic Research Foundation, Washington, DC.
[edit] Books
[edit] Author
- Heroic Misadventures (Australia:Four Decades-Full Circle) (2009) ISBN 978-0646522128
- Never a Dull Moment (with Charles Manners and Nancy Manners) (2002) ISBN 0859051749
[edit] Editor
- Kanowna's Barrowman: 1859-1948: The Early History of Kalgoorlie's Goldrushes - James Balzano (with George Compton) (1993) ISBN 0859051765
- So I Headed West - W.G. Manners (1992) ISBN 0859051234
[edit] Notes
- ^ http://www.mannkal.org/people.php
- ^ http://www.glgroup.com/Council-Member/Ronald-Manners-94830.html
- ^ http://www.mininghall.com/MiningHallOfFame/Patrons_and_Directors.php
- ^ http://getaway.ninemsn.com.au/fsaustraliawa/outback/270381/kalgoorlie
- ^ http://www.glgroup.com/Council-Member/Ronald-Manners-94830.html
