The mining industry has contributed significantly to Australia’s recent prosperity – with favourable terms of trade … over the period 2003-04 to 2006-07 contributing to increased incomes – but productivity in the sector has fallen markedly …. According to Australian Bureau of Statistics estimates, MFP in the mining sector declined by 24 per cent between 2000-01 and …

physical and market attributes meant its mining and trade continued despite the implementation of trade control measures), low …

Despite a sizeable literature, there is no consensus as to whether and how mineral resources are linked to conflict. In … this paper, we estimate the relationship between giant mineral deposit discoveries and the intensity of armed conflict … with respect to mineral commodity type: metals with a low value-to-weight ratio are not easy to exploit and smuggle and …