Ron Manners

Ronald B. Manners
Born	1936 Kalgoorlie, Western Australia
Residence	Perth, Western Australia
Education	Kalgoorlie School of Mines
Occupation	Businessman

Ronald B. Manners (born 1936) is an Australian businessman. He is Executive Chairman of Mannwest Group and founder and Executive Director of the Mannkal Economic Education Foundation, an Australian free-market think tank. Manners was one of the founders of the Workers Party, subsequently known as the Progress Party, and is a co-founder of ANDEV (Australians for Northern Development and Economic Vision), a lobby group chaired by co-founder Gina Rinehart.

Biography

Early life

Ron Manners was born in 1936 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. Ron Manners studied electrical engineering at the Kalgoorlie School of Mines.

Career in mining

In 1955, Manners assumed management of the family business. He expanded and diversified the company which became the Mannwest Group. He serves as its Executive Director.

Between 1972 and 1995, he floated several Australian listed mining companies. In 1985, he founded Sirius Resources NL, later known as Croesus Mining NL, a gold mining company. He served as its Chairman from 1985 to 2005. While chairman, the company produced 1.275 million ounces of gold and paid 11 dividends. He has served as Chairman Emeritus since 2005. He has also served as Non Executive Chairman of De Grey Mining Ltd.

He is Emeritus chairman, patron of the Australian Prospectors & Miners' Hall of Fame, inducted in 2011 as a "living legend". He also served as Executive Councillor of the Association of Mining and Exploration Companies (AMEC). He is a Fellow of both the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy and the Australian Institute of Company Directors. He was elected at the 2005 Excellence in Mining & Exploration Conference in Sydney. In 2012, he defended Gina Rinehart against Wayne Swan in her bid to invest in Fairfax Media.

Other activity

A proponent of the free market, he founded the Mannkal Economic Education Foundation in 1997. He is a 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 in Washington, D.C..

Bibliography

As author

• Heroic Misadventures (Australia:Four Decades-Full Circle) (2009) ISBN 978-0-646-52212-8. OCLC 455934757
• Never a Dull Moment (with Charles Manners and Nancy Manners) (2002) ISBN 0-85905-174-9. OCLC 52697697
• Mannerisms (1979-1983) (self published poems, 1983) ISBN 978-0-959-12030-1. OCLC 222633611

As editor

• Kanowna's barrowman: James Balzano, 1859-1948: the early history of Kalgoorlie's goldrushes (with George Compton) (1993) ISBN 0-85905-176-5. OCLC 38335683
• So I Headed West – W.G. Manners (1992) ISBN 0-85905-123-4. OCLC 31700388

External links

• Mannkal Economic Education Foundation

• Mannkal biography
• GLG Research biography
• Rania Spooner, Rebranding the mining industry, SMH, 15 November 2011
• Ronald B. Manners, Bloomberg BusinessWeek
• Sandra Eleyn Close, The great gold renaissance: the untold story of the modern Australian gold boom, 1982–2002, Surbiton Associates, 2002, p. 227
• Brad Norington, Good early gold results for Croesus, The Sydney Morning Herald, 6 August 1987
• Brad Norington, Croesus claims reserve boost, The Sydney Morning Herald, 1 October 1987
• Barry Fitzgerald, South Res faces another attack by shareholders, The Age, 26 October 1989
• ABC
• Andrew Burrell, Courtly Manners rises to Rinehart's defence, The Australian, 23 June 2012
• Atlas Economic Research Foundation board