Australia 'too concerned about mining'

Australia 'too concerned about mining': "Australia is too concerned with environmental and social issues surrounding mining activities, managing director of uranium developer Paladin Resources Ltd John Borshoff says.

Paladin has gone offshore in its uranium exploration and is commissioning its first mine in Namibia in southern Africa this year."

""The resource future in this early part of the 21st century belongs to Africa," Mr Borshoff told the ABC.

"Australia and Canada have become overly sophisticated.

"They measure progress in other aspects of economic development, and rightly so, but there's been an overcompensation in terms of thinking about environmental issues and social issues way beyond what is necessary to achieve good practice.""