Chapter 11 UtraAH Down UNDER 219 mines on Kyushu and would be looking for a replacement source. Obtaining financing for the Bowen Basin project depended on a sustained expansion of the steel industry in Japan and the cooperation of the Japanese government. Consequently, within a day of the Taurus discovery, company President Edmund W. Littlefield flew to Japan for a series of meetings with business and government officials in Tokyo, accompanied by George S. Ishiyama, a business consultant who had assisted Bourret during his earlier visits. Littlefield came away impressed with the country’s booming steel industry and with the : ¥ e, | | GREAT SANDY | NORTHERN TERRITORY | | | GIBSON Desert| 4 Australia | WESTERN AUSTRALIA § ce; evn GREAT VICTORIA DESERT | SOUTH AUSTRALIA | i 10 Perth Ge ae see a apes oie — GREAT . Sy ae ~ °. : ‘ + Fal ° INDIAN OCEAN Utah Construction projects in Australia. 1. Big Eildon Dam, Victoria; 2. Cairn Curran Dam, Victoria; 3. Wayatinah Tunnel, Tasmania; 4. Tantangara Dam and Tunnel, Snowy Mtn. River Project, New South Wales; 5. Mulwala Power Station, Victoria; 6. Mt. Goldsworthy Mine, Western Australia; 7. Blackwater Mine, Queensland; 8. Port Hedland, Western Australia; 9. Gladstone Mine, Queensland; 10. Goonyella and Peak Downs Mines, Queensland; 11. Saraji and Norwich Park Mines, Queensland; 12. Hay Point Mine, Queensland.