Documents Relating To ‘keep Our Copper’ Event And Industrial Capability Round Table.

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This FOI release contains correspondence from Federal Member for Kennedy Bob Katter to Ministers Madeleine King and Tim Ayres dated 26 June 2025, addressing the viability of Mount Isa's mining and processing operations. Katter outlines concerns that Glencore's closure of its copper mine and threatened closure of the copper smelter—which processes ore from regional operations—would eliminate approximately $2 billion annually from the Australian economy. Rather than endorsing Glencore's requested $2 billion government bailout, Katter proposes alternative measures: implementation of a reserved resource policy to provide competitively-priced natural gas to Mount Isa industries (suggested at $6 per unit) and a "use it or lose it" directive requiring Glencore to sell, operate, or rehabilitate the copper mine at its own expense. The correspondence positions these approaches as precedent-based alternatives to direct government