AUSTRALIA diversified at the time of the global financial crisis , diversifying across commodities through gold , nickel , iron ore and diamond projects in Western Australia . Its most timely and visionary action was to look abroad ; in 2013 , it sent a team to Brazil to explore opportunities in the country ’ s vibrant mining economy .
“ Our systems and structure weren ’ t in place to venture abroad ,” said Mitch Wallace , General Manager for MACA Brazil Operations , “ but we looked closely at the Tucano project for Beadell Resources , an Australian company that had a gold project up in Amapá State in the northern region of Brazil . The following year we came over to Brazil in earnest and , in November
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