| New Zealand Minerals e-News |
July 2008
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| Meeting of minds (and ideas) at AusIMM Conference This year’s Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (AusIMM) conference in Wellington comes at a pivotal time for the New Zealand minerals and natural resource industries, NZMIA Chief Executive Doug Gordon says. “It’s an election year, and that always means that parties take another look at what they are doing and where they stand on issues and that has potentially huge – and beneficial – implications for our country,” Mr Gordon said. Read more ... Development Potential. Doing the numbers: minerals industry more than stacks up In December last year, New Zealand for the first time earned $1 billion in dairy exports for a month. In that same month, the relatively small Tui oilfield, off the Taranaki coast, exported $254 million worth of oil. Consultant geologist Richard Barker was somewhat struck by the comparison, in compiling his minerals industry report, Natural Resource Potential of New Zealand. Read more ... Minerals Value Proposition: There's gold in them thar hills – and oil and gas at sea There’s gold in them thar hills – well, actually there’s an awful lot more than gold and it’s worth a lot of money – an estimated $4.5 billion annually for New Zealand. That’s the impressive figure calculated in The Natural Resource Potential of New Zealand, a report that is in effect a value proposition for the natural resources sector in this country, and which also points to how this wealth may be unlocked. Read more... Political will – a resource in short supply The New Zealand minerals industry produces more than 50 million tonnes of minerals a year, but there is one resource that has been in particularly short supply – political will, NZMIA Chief Executive Doug Gordon says. “We just can’t mine enough of that,” he said. “There is so much more that could be achieved for New Zealand with a more favourable and committed political and policy environment. We need a central government champion for the people’s commonly owned natural resources wealth". Read more ... |
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