Mining & Energy TASMANIA
a place of opportunity for china
Tasmania once again has become a place for mineral investment by China. The Chinese first saw the opportunities for
investment in Tasmania in 1874 when some 700- plus men and families lived and worked in North East Tasmania looking for tin and gold. Most of the Chinese miners came as single men and a few stayed with their families after the ‘rush’ collapsed in the early 1940s. The existence of the Chinese and their legacy within the community is still recognised today with some pride by Tasmanians. For Tasmania a new era of connection with
China commenced around the year 2000. China was starting to develop into an industrial powerhouse requiring much of the raw metals that Australia possessed and the ever-expanding population had growing expectations for a better lifestyle and economy. How did this new connection between
Tasmania and China redevelop? During the development of the Avebury Nickel Mine a longtime China follower Tony Howland-Rose saw that if the Avebury Nickel mine was to get off the ground he needed to forge a connection that allowed Allegiance Mining, the owner of the Avebury Plant, to convince its financial backers that they could sell the nickel concentrate that they planned to produce. To Howland-Rose, China was the obvious partner and Allegiance eventually signed an agreement to sell the offtake from the Avebury mine to the Gansu-based JNMC.
ABOVE: Mineral Resources Tasmania team at work on Tasmania’s west coast.
BELOW: Senior management Team of Yunnan Tin with General Manager Mr Gao, Minister for Resources Bryan Green and the head of the Department of Infrastructure, Energy & Resources.
Mineral Resources Tasmania, using the ‘Team Australia’
approach, commenced supporting the China Mining Conference, Asia’s premier mining conference and exhibition event, as a way of further spreading the message that Australia, and especially Tasmania, were places for China to invest in. At the same time, Tasmania, along with all the other
Tasmanian Resources wind farm operation in Shantou, China. 46 Australia China: BEYOND TOMORROW
Australian states, held a one-day investment attraction seminar at China Mining, which is supported by Austrade and Australian government representatives in Beijing. Australia, as one of the supporter countries of China Mining, relies on the organisers of China Mining to support and promote this event, and it has become increasingly popular. Tasmania has taken every opportunity to promote itself in China. In 2005 the then Deputy Premier, Paul Lennon, visited JNMC in Gansu province. Since then, Mineral Resources Tasmania staff visited Hunan, Fujian, Jiangsu, Yunnan, Shanxi and Shandong provinces to look at mining and mineral processing operations and to meet companies involved in investing in Tasmania and Australia. Mineral Resources Tasmania has also spent some time in Beijing and Shanghai, and it was part of the Austrade promotion of minerals as part of the World Expo in Shanghai.
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