FOREWORD
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MESCA
The spring
of hope
DAvID WAllIS
“It was the best of times, it was the worst We’ve had our winter of despair and are
of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was now focusing on the spring of hope and the
the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of blooms of opportunity that come with it.
belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it A new era is dawning; an era that will be
was the season of light, it was the season of driven not only by a worldwide desire for
darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was our minerals and technology but a world
the winter of despair, we had everything that wants to see the implementation of
before us, we had nothing before us, we clean energy and environmentally conscious
were all going direct to Heaven, we were all processes used to extract, and utilise these
going direct the other way.” commodities.
This is the opening of Charles Dickens’ How can we best take advantage of this
classic A Tale of Two Cities. Dickens was spring of hope? How can we determine
we can take obviously not referring to our resources the direction we will travel? By using the
advantage of
industry when he penned this literary same ingenuity, innovation and forward
the spring of
masterpiece. Yet the similarities to the past thinking that’s earned Australia the “world’s
hope by using
10 years are quite startling. best” tag. We will need to see even greater
the same
We have seen record commodity prices collaboration between the mining and
ingenuity,
with labour and equipment shortages, the energy companies and their suppliers
development of ground-breaking ideas to recover and make the most of these
innovation and
around clean energy and a proposed precious resources.
forward thinking
carbon trading scheme, still with no real MESCA (The Mining & Energy
that’s earned
explanation or guidelines as to how it will be Services Council of Australia) believes a
us ‘the world’s
implemented … just that it will. supply chain made from strategic alliances,
best’ tag. There is but one significant differing delivering cost-effective solutions to the
factor, which is the order of the seasons. industries in question will be vital if we
are to move forward. MESCA is the peak
body representing Australia’s engineering,
IT, service, equipment and manufacturing
suppliers to the industry.
We would like to thank Roxby Media
for the opportunity to be involved with
the inaugural issue of this magazine. Our
members look forward to playing their
role in the worldwide recognition and
future development of Australia’s resources
industry.

david wallis
executive officer, MesCA
Image courtesy of Rio Tinto.
8 MINING & TECHNOLOGY AUSTRALIA 2010
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