Gold Digger

Inheriting an asset is one thing; expanding and building upon it is something else altogether. Chairman of Pt J resources, jimmy budiarto, talks about his journey in the business when he was still the company ceo, and plans for the future.

- Nikki Stefanoff

Jimmy Budiarto has always been interested in mining. And not just because it was the family business, although that is where it all started, and his father’s coal mining contracting company was where Jimmy first began learning the tricks of the trade.

“My dad was quite a prominent guy in the coal sector, but it wasn’t until around 1997 that I started helping out and getting involved with his company,” he says. “Then, in 2000, after finishing university, I started to get more involved.

“The industry wasn’t doing so well in 2008 and so, in 2009, we made the decision to sell the business and my dad started to focus more on property. It was the right thing for him to do, and it meant I could start to look out for new opportunities. Around that time, a friend approached me to see if I would be interested in moving into the mining side of things and investing in a gold mining company. I thought it sounded interesting, said yes, and started the journey of investing in what would eventually become PT J Resources.”

As Jimmy describes it, he’s always been excited by gold, and over the course of his career has dedicated time towards studying the way it works.