The Gavin Thomas Mining Award

The Gavin Thomas Mining Award

The Gavin Thomas Mining Award is named after the long-time Kingsgate Consolidated managing director and chief executive officer Gavin Thomas, who sadly passed away in Sydney in 2014, aged just 63. 

Gavin was a brilliant geologist and a passionate advocate of the mining industry. He was declared a mining legend by his peers in 2005.

In honour of Gavin’s life-long dedication to the industry, the Australian Gold Conference decided to recognise an individual or a company that has demonstrated not only dedication to their industry but along the way created a strong team ethic and maintained a great joie de vivre, which was a hallmark of Gavin’s life.

The winner of the 2022 award was De Grey Mining for growing one of Australia’s most exciting new gold discoveries at Hemi within the Mallina gold project. Hemi defied all naysayers and is growing in size each year.

The Annual Gold Awards past winners