Stilgherrian » mining http://stilgherrian.com All publication is a political act. All communication is propaganda. All art is pornography. All business is personal. All hail Eris. Vive les poissons rouges sauvages! Thu, 08 Jan 2009 09:45:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 en hourly 1 © stil@stilgherrian.com () stil@stilgherrian.com() 1440 Live Internet broadcasts from Stilgherrian. All publication is a political act. All communication is propaganda. All art is pornography. All business is personal. All hail Eris. stil@stilgherrian.com No no http://stilgherrian.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/sla_144w.jpg Stilgherrian http://stilgherrian.com 144 144 So this is what a resources boom looks like… http://stilgherrian.com/politics/resources_boom/ http://stilgherrian.com/politics/resources_boom/#comments Thu, 13 Sep 2007 00:49:48 +0000 Stilgherrian http://stilgherrian.com/politics/resources_boom/ Graph of mineral exploration expenditure

This graph (right) shows the massive rise in spending on minerals exploration in Australia over the last 8 years.

The graph comes from the Australian Bureau of Statistics report 8412.0 - Mineral and Petroleum Exploration, Australia, Jun 2007 released yesterday — although this specific graph doesn’t include petroleum.

They say:

The trend estimate for total mineral exploration expenditure increased by $22.3m (5.0%) to $470.8m in the June quarter 2007. The estimate is now 37.4% higher than the June quarter 2006 estimate.

The largest contributions to the increase this quarter were in Western Australia (up $17.1m or 7.8%) and South Australia (up $7.2m or 9.8%). New South Wales showed the largest decrease of $1.7m or 4.7%.

I suppose I should say something about this being an indicator of where all the money’s been coming from lately. But we all know this already, don’t we?

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