A Flow Through Share Scheme is essential to the mining industry, The AusIMM President-Elect Greg Chalmers writes.
The Digger Deeper Conference, held in Brisbane on Wednesday, was popular with junior explorers and the scientific community this year, Mines and Energy Minister Geoff Wilson told MINING DAILY.
Key industry stakeholders have attended the first of three major resource summits in the Bowen Basin.
Western Australia Mines and Petroleum Minister Norman Moore said he would overhaul the unwieldy approvals process in the mining and resources sector if he was elected at the recent State election. He was elected, and overhaul he did.
Victorian Energy and Resources Minster Peter Batchelor has announced 11 mining companies will receive a total of $700,000 to aid in their search for minerals.
The Association of Mining and Exploration Companies (AMEC) has called for both major political parties in Western Australia (WA) to dedicate a Minister to a sole resources portfolio.
Northern Territory Mines and Energy Minister Chris Natt says mining and exploration will further improve next financial year.
ACTING Minister for Mineral Resources Development Michael Atkinson said the South Australian Government imposes stringent environmental conditions on all exploration and mining tenements.
THE Excellence in Mining and Exploration conference will be held at the Hilton in Sydney from the 9 to 11 September 2007.
FIGURES released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics for the 2005-061 financial year indicate record levels of mineral exploration investment in South Australia and the state attracting its highest ever reported share of Australia’s mineral exploration.