SA:More mining towns unlikely in SA

AAP General News (Australia)
12-05-2011
SA:More mining towns unlikely in SA

A parliamentary inquiry's been told a surge in mining activity in South Australia is
unlikely to result in the development of more company towns in the state's outback.

The state's chamber of mines and energy says because of the remoteness and nature of
mining deposits more companies would make use of a fly-in, fly-out (FIFO) or drive-in,
drive-out (DIDO) workforce.

South Australia has two major company towns that were established to service major
mining deposits, the coal-mining town of Leigh Creek and Roxby Downs near the Olympic
Dam uranium and copper mine.

In a written submission to a federal parliamentary workforce inquiry, the SA Chamber
of Mines and Energy says both those towns were established during different economic environments
to support exceptionally long-life mines.

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