In The News

If you have a media enquiry please contact RESA's Marketing Manager, Jayne Osborne via jayne.osborne@resa.org.au, (08) 7325 8501 or 0417 725 995.

 

A selection of recent RESA media releases are outlined below.

 

Australia's Mining Sector Needs To Turnaround Its

Crippling Costs To Regain Global Competiteness: RESA 

Australia's mining sector has lost its cost competitiveness in the past decade due largely to its declining cost position at existing operations combined with capital costs for new projects rising faster than elsewhere, according to one of the country's key business advisory and productivity agencies to the sector, the Resources and Engineering Skills Alliance (RESA).

Addressing the second day of the two day Paydirt 2013 South Australian Resources and Energy Investment Conference at the Adelaide Convention Centre on 1st May 2013, RESA's Chief Executive Officer, Mr Phil de Courcey, said that ranked against competing producers in the thermal coal, coking coal, copper and nickel markets, more than half of Australia's mines have costs above global averages

 

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Coverage: The above RESA media release featured on Sky News and in In Daily news.

 

Poor Productivity Impacting Mining Boom Benefits: RESA 

A The deteriorating productivity of Australia's mining industry will continue to worsen unless there is a concerted effort to lift both performance and the level of skills needed to protect and grow our position as the world's 3rd largest mining country in terms of minerals commodity wealth.

The blunt warning was issued by the Adelaide-based Resources and Engineering Skills Alliance (RESA) - one of the few bodies nationally tasked with bridging the skills, training and workforce gaps in our $737 billion value resources sector

 

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Coverage: The above RESA media release featured on Channel 7 Adelaide News, ABC Radio 891 (via a live interview), ABC radio Perth & In Business online news.

 

Workforce Scoping Study

RESA recently released its report on the Workforce Scoping Study conducted on the Eyre Peninsula.  The report estimates the existing mines of OneSteel and Iluka will be joined by at least seven new operations over the next five years.  This opens many opportunities for job seekers as employers hiring intentions show a steady growth of around 400 resources job a year, over the next five years.  Conservative estimates of new jobs associated with resources related construction and infrastructure would lead to a further 3000 jobs in the same period.

 

If the seven projects studied include OneSteel's Project Magnet in the Middleback Ranges; Iluka's Jacinth /Ambrosia in the Eucla Basin on the West Coast; Iron Clad's Willchery Hill Stage 1 project near Kimba;  Iron Road at Warramboo; Centrex's Bungalow prospect and Lower Eyre projects including the Eyre Iron venture at Koppio; Lincoln Minerals Gum Flat Stage 1 and 2; Minotaur at Poochera and Uranium SA's Samphire project.

 

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