IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/ags/cfcp13/177299.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

Bread from stones: no single recipe

Author

Listed:
  • Sullivan, Peter

Abstract

Mining companies’ main business is to focus on their core expertise — best-practice mining development and operation. Resolute Mining Limited has over two decades of expertise, and is one of the largest gold producers listed on the Australian Stock Exchange. In Africa we mine, or have mined, in Mali, Tanzania and Ghana, and have explored in Côte d’Ivoire. We have an underground operation at Ravenswood in Queensland. Mining companies often need to focus on community development in the region of a mine because that forms a key plank of harmonious operations, and Resolute has a strong history in this respect also. Agriculture is only one of the important components in partnering with communities. Health and education are other examples of community development that can be advanced through mining company inputs, both in the local area and via taxes and royalties to the country’s government. There are multiple opportunities for mining companies in Africa, depending on the country and area of operation. Although it takes persistence and effort to be successful with these opportunities, mining companies offer a cost-effective platform for others to continue and build on.

Suggested Citation

  • Sullivan, Peter, 2013. "Bread from stones: no single recipe," 2013: Mining, Agriculture and Development: Bread from stones?, 26-27 August 2013 177299, Crawford Fund.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:cfcp13:177299
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.177299
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/177299/files/Sullivan2013.pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.22004/ag.econ.177299?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Urama, Kevin Chika, 2013. "Mining and agriculture for development: exploring the nexus," 2013: Mining, Agriculture and Development: Bread from stones?, 26-27 August 2013 177300, Crawford Fund.
    2. Abdul‐Wadood Moomen & Divine Odame‐Appiah, 2023. "Examining the spatial incongruity between mining sector and beekeeping activities," Natural Resources Forum, Blackwell Publishing, vol. 47(2), pages 177-191, May.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:ags:cfcp13:177299. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: AgEcon Search (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://www.crawfordfund.org/ .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.