Last month Trans-Tasman Resources (TTR) was reviewing its Queen’s Counsel’s detailed assessment of the High Court ruling in late August over its mining plans off...
In the South Island there remain few viable alternatives to coal for many domestic, business, and industrial users that depend on coal for energy. NEIL...
Australian company Plaman Global is progressing with plans to resurrect diatomite quarrying operations in the South Island, with the potential to earn billions of export...
THE IMPACT OF commercial-scale mining for polymetallic nodules on deep-sea ecosystems remains a big question amongst scientists. Historically, the first commercial deep-sea test mining was...
FUGRO, A DUTCH multinational company that provides geotechnical, survey, subsea, and geoscience services, has started its first project supporting deep-sea polymetallic nodule mining under a...
Trans-Tasman Resources has a final legal hurdle to clear before developing this country’s first offshore seabed mining project – and that is gaining court clearance....
Already planning to mine phosphate deposits on the Chatham Rise, Chatham Rock Phosphate has also identified lucrative rare earth minerals on the Chatham Rise seafloor,...
Trans-Tasman Resources is still confident about its plans to extract and export ironsands dredged from the Taranaki seabed. By NEIL RITCHIE. TRANS-TASMAN RESOURCES chairman Alan...