{"id":7085,"date":"2024-11-30T09:35:22","date_gmt":"2024-11-29T20:35:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/perc.ac.nz\/wordpress\/?p=7085"},"modified":"2025-03-03T09:48:35","modified_gmt":"2025-03-02T20:48:35","slug":"what-can-we-really-expect-from-an-expanded-mining-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perc.ac.nz\/wordpress\/what-can-we-really-expect-from-an-expanded-mining-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"What can we really expect from an expanded mining industry?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

PERC member Glenn Banks has published a piece in The Spinoff<\/a> analysing Shane Jones’ “mining boosterism” and the debate around “critical minerals”. He argues:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The minister\u2019s references to the need for New Zealand to \u201cdo our bit\u201d in terms of the production of \u201ccritical minerals\u201d is used as an additional justification for the expansion of the sector. The problem is that none of the evidence to date \u2013 over a hundred years of sporadic and the\u00a0more recent systematic surveys<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 indicates that we have significant, world-scale reserves and resources of any of these critical minerals. There are potentially reserves of antimony on the West Coast, and exploration interest in lithium in a few spots, but nothing like the scale elsewhere. And the argument that we have a moral obligation to produce some of what we consume in terms of the critical minerals we draw on in our everyday lives just doesn\u2019t hold water in the globalised world we live in. The label \u201ccritical minerals\u201d, then, is just being used as a discursive shift to try and justify the continuing relevance of the mining sector and open up new opportunities for the expansion of non-critical minerals (such as gold) and fossil fuels (coal).”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Head over to The Spinoff<\/a> to read the whole piece. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

PERC member Glenn Banks has published a piece in The Spinoff analysing Shane Jones’ “mining boosterism” and the debate around “critical minerals”. He argues: “The minister\u2019s references to the need for New Zealand to \u201cdo our bit\u201d in terms of the production of \u201ccritical minerals\u201d is used as an additional justification for the expansion of the sector. The problem is … <\/p>\n

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