QUESTION: INSIGHTFUL or FEAR-MONGERING HYPERBOLE?[Original full article is linked here: https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/world-faces-terrifying-future-if-miners-regulators-dont-step-up-newcrest-2023-06-29/]
World faces 'TERRIFYING' future if miners, regulators don't step up, Newcrest says
Reuters
June 29, 20232:06 PM EDTUpdated 2 days ago
BRISBANE, June 29 (Reuters) - Regulators urgently need to fast track approvals for new mines and the renewable energy projects to power them to ensure the supply of minerals essential to averting climate change, gold miner Newcrest's (NCM.AX) interim head said on Thursday.
"We are urgently off course and we need to course correct immediately," Sherry Duhe, interim CEO of Australia's top gold miner and a former oil industry executive, told a mining conference in Brisbane.
By 2050, the mining industry needs to bring online the equivalent of 17 more Escondidas, the world's biggest copper mine ... in order to meet demand projections, she said as an example of the scale of the problem. [Access remaining portion of article via link provided above.]
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