The growing “anti-mining sentiment” in the past decades has led the public to underestimate the importance of the mining industry despite it being so embedded in people’s daily lives, an international mining conference has been told.
Australia’s Federal Opposition Resources Spokeswoman Susan McDonald on June 26 called on industry groups to  “stand up and tell the world what vital work you do,” saying said that over-regulation and misinformation are throttling the resources sector.
The senator argued that many people don’t realise the mining sector is what’s behind the phones they use every day, their computers, “reusable” glass coffee cups, the bricks in their house, the fertilisers that help grow vegetables that they eat, or radioactive materials so critical to medical research….