This report examines the outlook for the mining and heavy industry category of engineering construction. This includes the resources, minerals processing and other heavy industrial sectors. Investment in this sector is now experiencing an extraordinary boom, which still has further to run.

The onset of the global financial crisis and the start of a significant economic downturn have hit the resources sector hard, stopping the boom in its tracks. While activity will remain strong as the current round of works are finished, many of the next round of projects are at risk.

That said, some sub-sectors have better prospects than others. In this report, we analyse the supply, demand and price fundamentals of each commodity and the implications of these for new project development. We cover the construction of all minerals extraction, processing and storage facilities, as well as all secondary processing and other heavy industrial facilities.

Adrian Hart

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