近二十年来，采矿承包商的产值在澳大利亚矿业中所占的份额稳步增长。八十年代至九十年代间，采金业的迅猛发展是推动其增长的最大原动力。最初，金矿山大都是资源有限且矿山服务年限短的小矿山。在此环境下，由于采矿承包商的介入可减少矿山开采所需的基建投资，提供现成的采 For nearly two decades, the share of mining contractors in Australian mining has steadily increased. From the 1980s to the 1990s, the rapid development of the gold mining industry was the biggest driving force behind its growth. Initially, most of the gold mines were small mines with limited resources and short service life of the mines. In this environment, as mining contractors’ interventions reduce the capital investment needed for mining, they provide off-the-shelf mining