MOUNT ISA TO TOWNSVILLE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ZONE THE MITEZ REGION… A LAND OF OPPORTUNITY There are outstanding MATES opportunities to MINING invest in: The North West Minerals Province has world-class AGRICULTURE deposits of copper, gold, lead, Beef cattle is a major industry MINING silver, zinc, rare earths, uranium, with over 1 million head of cattle phosphate and many other in the MITEZ and surrounding minerals. The Northern Galilee area (Department of Agriculture, AGRICULTURE has substantial coal deposits. Fisheries and Forestry 2012). OPPORTUNITIES: There OPPORTUNITIES: Many TOURISM are many highly prospective opportunities are available: unexploited deposits and expanding and diversifying potential joint venture food production, horticultural ENERGY arrangements with exploration products, rice, cotton, meat companies. processing facility. SO MANY MORE WE HAVE GREAT INFRASTRUCTURE Integrated Transport Networks: WE HAVE GREAT PEOPLE Roads I Rail I Port I Airports Our human resources are: Land & Utilities: Affordable land I Power Well trained I Enthusiastic I Hardworking Water I Telecommunications The MITEZ region is home to 214,761 residents. Integrated transport networks link regional The workforce is quite highly skilled with 70% centres to the coast and Port of Townsville. being in skilled, clerical, technical, professional Affordable pastoral, industrial and commercial or managerial occupations. land is available in North West Queensland. ... FOR NEW INVESTMENT Boodjamulla (Lawn Hill) National Park © The State of Queensland (Department of TOURISM Environment and Heritage Protection) Visiting the outback and the ENERGY dinosaur trail, the Great Barrier Reef and Magnetic Island North West Queensland is SO MANY are highly popular tourist endowed with an abundance destinations. Many other sites of natural energy resources MORE such as Boodjamulla and including oil shale, coal seam Value adding industries and Porcupine Gorge National Parks gas, solar, wind, biofuels. industrial precincts in each of the have scenic beauty that is simply MITEZ communities. OPPORTUNITIES: Development breathtaking. of these renewable and non- OPPORTUNITIES: Developing conventional energy resources. new motels, establishing new tourist attractions. WE HAVE GREAT BRANDS WE HAVE GREAT Join some of the top global mining corporations that operate here: SUCCESS STORIES Mount Isa Mines – A Glencore Company Born and raised in North West Queensland, BHP Billiton – Cannington Mine Graham Huddy made his first investment MMG – Century and Dugald River Mines building a grader and hiring it out whilst working Mount Isa Mines is a part of the global mining as an apprentice diesel fitter at Hastings Deering giant Glencore with major copper assets and at Mount Isa. the largest zinc resource base in the world. BHP Together with his wife Linda they built one of Billiton Cannington is the largest silver and lead Australia’s largest plant hire, earth moving and mine in the world. MMG Limited is one of the contracting businesses with 140 machines and world’s largest zinc producers. 220 employees. Beijing WE HAVE A MITEZ REGION BIG WIDE LAND GUANGDONG 1,000kms The MITEZ region spans a total Hong Kong of 271,732 square kilometres and Townsville covers a distance of over 1,000 kilometres from the sparkling Charters Pacific Ocean and Great Barrier Mount Isa Towers Cloncurry Julia Richmond Reef across the picturesque Great Creek Hughenden Dividing Mountain Range to the Singapore unique Australian outback Indonesia QUEENSLAND THE MITEZ REGION IS 1.5 TIMES THE SIZE OF GUANGDONG AUSTRALIA Brisbane PROVINCE IN CHINA Sydney WE ARE A BIG PRODUCER Industry contribution to Gross Regional Product for the MITEZ region is estimated to be around $14.3 billion in 2011-12 (AEC Group). The major sectors are mining 17%, construction 12%, public administration 11%, health care and social services 7%, transport, postal and warehousing 7%. CONTACT Port of Townsville MOUNT ISA TO TOWNSVILLE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ZONE INC (MITEZ) PO BOX 1258 | 22 WEST STREET MOUNT ISA QUEENSLAND AUSTRALIA 4825 CEO: GLEN GRAHAM | T: +61 7 4743 3488 | E: [email protected] | W: www.mitez.com.au .