December Mining Monitor
Welcome to the final Mining Monitor for 2013. Online version here. While there is still much to be done to curb the impacts and excesses of the global mining industry, it’s worth pausing for a moment at this time of the year to remember what we have achieved with...
QLD: Mount Morgan Mining Legacy
Gavin Mudd and Jessie Boylan from MPI traveled to Rockhampton, then on to Mount Morgan to document the famous Mount Morgan gold-copper mine, which generated not only extra-ordinary wealth for its major shareholders but has left Queensland and Australia with probably it’s largest and most polluting mining legacy. Gold was first mined...
Toro Extraordinary General Meeting
Toro Extraordinary General Meeting By Mia Pepper, MPI Board The Mineral Policy Institute bought shares in Toro Energy Pty Ltd in 2012 with donations from a number of anti nuclear supporters. Toro is a small inexperienced Adelaide based uranium company with no operation mines. Their flagship project is the...
Extracting mining from our DNA
Boom: the underground history of Australia, from Gold Rush to GFC Review by Charles Roche, November 2013 Boom, is a refreshing tour of the history of mining and it’s impact on, and interaction with, Australia. Refreshing, mainly because Knox manages to discuss mining without being a supplicant observer, a...
Profits of Doom Book Review
Profits of Doom, by Antony Lowenstein Disaster Capitalism and mining Review by Charles Roche Prolific author, blogger and commentator Antony Lowestein has targeted disaster capitalism in his new book, Profits of Doom. It’s an ambitious book seeking to not only build on Noami Klein’s work from the The Shock...
Mudd on MPI – 2012 Chair’s Report
Across Australia, the mining industry remains in full swing – from coal mining and coal seam gas projects across eastern Australia, to a renewed gold industry in Western Australia, massive iron ore expansions in the Pilbara and several new iron ore projects in WA and South Australia, major new...
Mining in the Morobe Province of Papua New Guinea: Status, Issues and Prospects
Mining in the Morobe Province of Papua New Guinea: Status, Issues and Prospects Dr Gavin Mudd (Chair, MPI), June 2012 The Morobe Province of Papua New Guinea is an old gold field – where mining dates back almost a century and still continues. The community are therefore no strangers to...
From the mountains to the sea; following the Watut River
From the mountains to the sea; following the Watut River Article for the Mineral Policy Institute June 2012 Newsletter Morobe Project report (April 6-16, 2012) Jessie Boylan …Except it was the other way around; we stepped foot into a long (5+ meters) dug out canoe, equipped with an outboard...