Bureaucratic brush-off hurts exploration in NSW
Uncertainty, and the practice of sending mining hopefuls to an understaffed office in regional NSW, can turn off potential investors in companies looking for minerals other than coal.
When Australian Bauxite managing director Ian Levy brings potential Chinese investors to Queensland, he says that “the Mines Department and the ministerial staff roll out the red carpet" in Brisbane.
But in NSW, he is referred to departmental officials in Maitland, in the Hunter Valley, which has been the headquarters of the resources division of the NSW Department of Primary Industries since 2004.
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