Nauru Phosphate Corporation

Nauru Phosphate Corporation

The Nauru Phosphate Corporation (NPC) was a government-owned company controlling phosphate mining in Nauru, now known as the Republic of Nauru Phosphate, or RONPhos.

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Failed investments

In the early years of the Nauru Phosphate Royalties Development Trust, construction of two of five hi-rise luxury condos in Hawaii, on the island of Oahu have been built. The five towers (two completed as of 10/05) are located on prime Honolulu real estate with ocean views, and represent a benchmark in Honolulu luxury high-rises. Other investments included Nauru House in Melbourne and Hawaiki Tower in Honolulu. These luxury properties were only part of an international real estate portfolio that stretched into countries including Australia, the Philippines, Fiji, Guam, Samoa, the United States of America, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom.

Financial mismanagement and extravagant government spending (i.e.: investing AU$4 million in a London play, Leonardo, about Leonardo DaVinci's love life which "flopped" after weeks of bad reviews) led to increased spending, and increased loans, which were levied upon the real estate holdings of the Nauru Phosphate Royalties Trust. One loan, of AU$236 million from General Electric, which was used as a loan to pay off all other loans, could not be paid by the government. This led to G.E. seizing Nauru's international real estate developments, including the trademark Nauru House in Australia.

RONPhos

Following the collapse of phosphate mining in 2002 due to virtual exhaustion of minable resources, repatriation of many foreign workers began. From 2004 to 2005, the foreign workers were reduced from 1,478 to 470. Most of the workers were from Kiribati and Tuvalu.

On 1 July 2005, during a managerial restructuring, the Nauru Phosphate Corporation formally changed its name to the Republic of Nauru Phosphate Corporation to signal change. Today, RONPhos currently employs 20.4% of the working population of the Republic of Nauru.

Although the initial layer of phosphate has been mined out (approximately 100 million tones), a secondary level of phosphate is believed to exist, holding nearly 20 million tones of minable resources. RONPhos is beginning to develop plans for their economical extraction.

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References

Further reading

  • Paradise for Sale (Book) Authored by Carl N. McDaniel & John M. Gowdy (Univ. of California Press; 2000) Information regarding current state of RONPhos. Retrieved 20 August 2008.

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