> I honestly don't have the expertise to offer a solution to any of these My father worked a life time in the mining industry for several Australian mining com

> I honestly don't have the expertise to offer a solution to any of these My father worked a life time in the mining industry for several Australian mining companies, and as a result I spent a lot of time growing up in mining towns. By their nature those mining towns can and do feel isolated, but the lived experience of growing up in mining town can be enjoyable. Move on to the modern day miner and they are predominantly FIFO and that then which creates the problems you have outline. So my solution would be: 1. The mining company can not use FIFO workers to mine a resource. 2. Instead they have to existing town infrastructure complete with schools, medical centres etc. 3. If no such infrastructure can be found then it will need to be built. 4. If under these rules the resource can't be mined with a profit then it should be left in the ground until it can. The resources being mined don't belong to the mining companies, but instead belong to the community and to the country. By using FIFO workers these companies are just taking that resource without giving back anything to the community and if that is all they have to offer then the resource is better of not being mined.