Contemporary Issues in Mining

ELIZABETH BARBER Lecturer in logistics at the University of New South Wales, Canberra campus, Australia MEREANA BARRETT Senior Lecturer in the Bachelor of Humanities at Te Whare Wananga o Awanuiarangi (Indigenous University), New Zealand DAVID CHAIKIN Associate Professor at the University of Sydney Business School, Australia HUNG CHU Director at Lonergan Edwards Associates Ltd, Sydney, Australia NIGEL GARROW Lecturer in management at Macqauire Graduate School of Management, Australia ANANDA JEEVA Senior Lecturer in procurement and supply management at the School of Information Systems, Curtin University, Australia DAVID KELSEY Senior administrator at York St John University Business School, UK WAYNE LONERGAN Corporate finance partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers SVETLANA MASLYUK Lecturer in Economics at the School of Business and Economics, Monash University, Australia SIMON MOLLAN Lecturer in International Business at the University of Liverpool Management School, UK LES NETHERCOTT Associate Professor at the School of Accounting, La Trobe University, Australia DANIEL PAMBUDI Consultant (data analysis) for Livestock Information, Sector Analysis and Policy Branch, the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations GRANTLEY TAYLOR Lecturer at Curtin University, Australia GREG TOWER Research Professor at the School of Accounting, Curtin Business School, Australia TOM VALENTINE Visiting Professor at Macqauire Graduate School of Management, Australia ROBERT WALKER Honorary Professor of accounting, at the University of Sydney, Australia

List of Tables List of Figures Acknowledgements Editor and Contributors Overview PART I: STRATEGIC PERSPECTIVES An Overview of the Business History of the International Mining Industry; S.Mollan & D.Kelsey The Role of Mining in the Australian Economy; N.Garrow & T.Valentine PART II: OPERATIONAL PERSPECTIVES Transportation Issues of Australian Coal and Iron Ore; E.Barber MRO Procurement: Best Practices Framework for Capital Equipment; A.S.Jeeva PART III: FINANCIAL PERSPECTIVES
Practical Problems in Mining Valuations; W.Lonergan & H.Chu
The Tax Accounting Interface in the Mining Industry in the Context of IFRS; L.Nethercott
Carbon Tax: Economic Impact on the Latrobe Valley; M.Barrett, S.Maslyuk & D.Pambudi
PART IV: DISCLOSURE PERSPECTIVES
Permissive and Uninformative Reporting of Clean Up Costs; R.G.Walker
Capital Management Determinants of Financial Instrument Disclosures in the Extractive Industries: Evidence from Australian Firms; G.Taylor & G.Tower Transnational Corruption and Conflict Minerals; D.Chaikin