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Uranium Discussion•Uranium Expansion Encourages WA Mining Industry
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Monday, 23/11/2009
Western Australia's peak resources body has seen an increase in membership this year, despite a really difficult year for the miners.
Twelve new resource companies signed up to the Chamber of Minerals and Energy, a 3 per cent increase on last year.
Chief executive Reg Howard-Smith says there have been some positives for the resources sector in 2009.
"It's been a year where there's been a lot of policy achievement, with the new state government coming on board, and a lot of the issues that the chamber has been advocating for some years are actually coming to fruition," he says.
"We've actually seen a couple of sectors expanding over the last 12 months and one of those is uranium.
"The uranium industry is gearing up for production in a few years' time, and so that has meant a lot more activity."
http://www.abc.net.au/rural/news/content/200911/s2750993.htm