Economics for Business: Analyzing Demand & Supply in Australian Mining

This report provides an analysis of the Australian mining industry, focusing on the interplay of demand and supply factors. It assesses an article discussing a potential mining boom driven by tech metals, examining the stakeholders affected by fluctuations in the industry. The report applies the supply and demand framework to explain the industry's performance, noting the impact of the Global Financial Crisis and the recent resurgence due to tech metal demand. Recommendations are offered to enhance the industry's productivity through vocational training and export promotion, aiming to regain Australia's position as a market leader. The analysis concludes that strategic utilization of current opportunities can lead to significant economic benefits for the nation.

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Analysis of Australian mining resource with demand and supply
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Table of Contents
Introduction:....................................................................................................................................2
Assessment of the elected editorial:................................................................................................2
Effect on the stakeholders:...............................................................................................................3
Analysis of the report with economic ideas:....................................................................................3
Recommendations to control the state of affairs:............................................................................4
Conclusion:......................................................................................................................................4
Reference:........................................................................................................................................6

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Introduction:
Australia is one of the mineral rich country that contributes substantially in the country’s
growth projectile. According to the statistics, mining industry of the Australia shares 8.4% to the
GDP of the nation that has allowedit to become one of the largest growth multiplier for the
nation (Ivanova 2014). However, over the year since 2006, there has been reduced growth in
mining industry of Australia due to various reasons (Bishop and Cassidy 2017). Recently it has
been observed that there is certain rise in the tech metals production, which is aiding the
country’s economy to face a mining boom again. According to the article posted in the ABC
news, coming mining boom in the country is set to get motivated by the tech-metals (McHugh
2018). This report is focused to discuss the selected article with the various economic tools like
supply and demand framework and trace who are the affected stakeholders. In addition to this,
analyzing the selected article the report will portray recommendation to gauge or enhance the
situation.
Assessment of the elected editorial:
According to the selected article it has been found that there is certain rise in the
Australian tech metals in the world economy and in addition to this it is obvious that Australian
economy is all set to face another mining boom in the coming years. Australian economy is
accounted for 2.2% mining ore trading out of total world mineral trade (McHugh 2018). It
generates large amount of employment in the nation and with the rise in the demand of the
Australian tech metals from the developed countries, it is all set to face another boom in the
recent years. There has been certain fall in the demand of the Australian mining products during
the Global Financial Crisis during 2008 that has slowed down the growth of the Australian
mining boom since 2010 (Dwyer et al. 2016). Next to this recently it has been found that the

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Australia possess tech metals that can be proved as the stimuli for the next economic boom. In
addition to this, the article also highlights that one of the main reason for the recent rise in the
Australian mining industry is the rise in productivity of the human capital. As a result the nation
is about to face its next mining boom like post 2003 (McHugh 2018).
Effect on the stakeholders:
Since 2003 to 2006, is acknowledged as the golden age of the Australian mining industry,
where the demand for mining products of the country has been rising at a rapid rate. However,
due to demand gap since 2010 as well as saturated world market altered the situation for the
Australian mining industry (Hagenbuchner and Tsoi 2016). For this, there has been various job
less ness for the skilled, semi-skilled and unskilled labors. In addition to this, fall in the demand
of Australian mining products has also caused reduction in the demand of the Australian dollars
that has depreciated the Australian currency compared to the other nations. Thus, considering the
selected article affected stakeholders are the patrons of the mining industries as well as the
employees too because there has been loss in employment due to fall in the demand of the
mining industry. However, it has been observed that there is rise in the demand of the Australian
demand in the international market, which is direct outcome of the rise in need of the tech metals
of Australia (Paterakis, Erdinçand Catalão 2017). In this case affected stakeholders are the semi-
skilled and unskilled labors because they are not being employed to the desired percentage in the
mining industry.
Analysis of the report with economic ideas:
Supply and demand framework is one of the best economic model that can explain the
Australian mining industry efficiently (Rees 2017). Considering that the economy is in such a
position where the economy is facing lower demand as well as lower supply, then it is obvious

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that the economy will achieve lower revenue from the industry. In addition to this, lowered
revenue has reduced the employment. However, there is recent rise in the Australian demand that
has enhanced the aggregate demand of the mining output of the nation. It is aimed to enhance the
price level, which can enhance the employment through back hand effect of the demand rise. In
addition to this, the article also highlights that recent growth of the mining industry will enhance
the government expenditure, which will enhance the infrastructure of the economy that can
provide sustainability to the economy and make it market leader in the mining industry (Epstein
and Buhovac 2014).
Recommendations to control the state of affairs:
Australian mining industry situation is getting better off in recent days. Thus it is high
time for the economy to grab the opportunity to become where it was during 2006. In order to
grab the opportunity recommendation are as follows:
1. It is highly required for the economy to adopt vocational training program for the miners.
It will enhance the productivity and transform them into skilled lab our, which will help
both the mining output as well as the economy of the nation as a whole.
2. Secondly it would be ideal for the government to take export promotion and provide
proper exposure to the mining industry of the nation so that it can withstand against the
strong competition from the countries like China and India who are selling mining
products at lower cost.
Conclusion:
Considering the case of the Australian mining industry, it can be seen that there was fall
in the demand of the Australian minerals in the world market. With rise in the substitute
producer of the minerals like China and India, who can produce minerals at lower cost has

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snatched the market share of the Australian mining industry. However, by analyzing the selected
article it can be seen that recent rise in demand of the Australian mining products due to presence
in tech metals has been possible due to presence of the tech metals in the mines of the nation.
The report concludes with the idea that the economy of Australia can become a market leader
once again if they can grab the present opportunity efficiently through utilizing the provided
recommendations.

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