Mount Isa Future Ready Economy Roadmap

Mount Isa City Council has launched the Mount Isa Future Ready Economy Roadmap, a bold new economic vision to transform and diversify the local economy while delivering immediate jobs and long-term benefits for its residents.

This Roadmap highlights how targeted support can help unlock new opportunities for Australia’s world-leading mining regions. With timely, long-term, and ambitious policy settings and investment, industrial regions can be at the heart of Australia’s future economy. 

The Mount Isa Future Ready Economy Roadmap presents 28 pathways and nearly 400 potential actions for local stakeholders, industry, government and community to strengthen and diversify the economy across energy, mining and minerals, transport, agriculture, and tourism.

Developed by Council with The Next Economy and Climate-KIC Australia, and with input from more than 100 industry, business, government and community contributors, the Roadmap also focuses on ways to support decarbonisation, climate adaptation, circular design, regenerative practices, and community well-being.

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Read the Mount Isa Future Ready Economy Roadmap(PDF, 22MB)

Read Mayor Peta MacRae's Roadmap Launch Speech(PDF, 221KB)

This long-term strategy plots the way forward for Mount Isa and identifies potential projects, initiatives and programs that could help to diversify the city's economy following the 2025 closure of the Mount Isa Mines copper mining and processing operations, as well as the anticipated 2030 closure of the copper smelter.

Some of the projects include a new copper and critical-minerals smelter; new sulphuric acid production facilities; new renewable-energy projects; new decarbonisation initiatives; and new transport and infrastructure projects.

Read the Strategy(PDF, 5MB)