Resources Minister Shane Jones will embark on an international mission to attract investment and partnerships in New Zealand’s mining and geothermal sectors, attending three major industry conferences over the coming weeks.
Jones departs Monday for the International Mining and Resources Conference (IMARC) in Sydney, where he will speak about the “resource renaissance” underway in New Zealand, marked by rising interest in gold and other minerals.
“We are actively rebuilding international investor confidence and must be proactive and visible on the global stage,” Jones said. New Zealand will return to IMARC as an exhibitor, supported by local operators seeking international collaboration.
Following the Sydney event, Jones will travel to the United States to attend the Indigenous Geothermal Symposium and the Geothermal Rising Conference. There, he will promote New Zealand’s work in supercritical geothermal energy — a next-generation technology capable of producing several times the power of conventional geothermal sources.
Jones said his goal is to double geothermal energy production by 2040 and to encourage global collaboration in developing the technology. “We are leading the world in unlocking a new generation of geothermal energy,” he said. The minister is due back in New Zealand on November 1.
That sounds like a breath of fresh ait to me. We’ve got so many resources unused in this country it’s cruel. Chloe and her ilk will be seething. Hooray.
Yes open cut mines, poisons leeching into the soil and water table, the air filled with dust and worse, land subsidence and more. I used to work in the mining sector in Australia BTW so I have a fair idea what I’m talking about. This will take whats left of our clean green imagine and take a massive dump on it. Its not as if this hasn’t been tried before either. Didn’t work then, see no reason why it should now.
Correct we have so many resources that are unused. However all of the profits will go offshore. The countries resources should belong to the people of the country, but alas the greed at top will dictate that they clip the ticket and nothing will filter down.
I think its better than the Green New deal hoax cows farting death to the planet can’t grow a vegetable garden death to the planet can’t eat meat death to the planet have to live in 15 min cities or death to the planet must listen to the WEF, United nations, the W.h.o. and the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation or if course death to the planet and last of all must take the vaccine or death to the planet say no more we could go on forever But it’s only a conspiracy theory 🤔💉🤪☠️👀
Jones to promote AOTEAROA mining and geothermal potential overseas is a more accurate headline.
Aotearoa representatives attend first Indigenous Geothermal Symposium (Oct 2024) and presented “New Zealand’s Geothermal Story – A Māori Perspective”
https://www.geothermalnextgeneration.com/updates/aotearoa-representatives-attend-first-indigenous-geothermal-symposium
Geothermal Indigenous People’s Declaration – October 2024- (Aotearoa, US, Japan, Kenya)
https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/5ee80754caf15981698cc972/6792cdadc2245531098e5433_Final%20Indigenous%20Geothermal%20People%27s%20Declaration%20(26Oct24).pdf
All gas and gauges
It can be argued that mining has enabled mankind to advance beyond a simple hunter gatherer. You could say the first miners were the people who collected suitable rocks for making stone tools. Then came, copper, tin and iron. A major advance was triggered by coal mining. To abandon mining is to put us back into the hunter gatherer age with billions of people dying of starvation. Is that what the greenies want?
Let’s go Shane as long as the jobs go to kiwi’s and not AEWV’s