New Zealand Petroleum & Minerals granted Tasman Mining a Mining Permit for the high-grade Blackwater gold deposit near Reefton on the West Coast. This approval grants the right to mine gold and silver from the site for a 20 year period.
Six decades after gold mining ceased, Tasman Mining aims to set up an underground mine at the...
Current legislation is killing the development of mining in this country unless central government fulfils its promise to modernise the increasingly anachronistic Resource Management Act.
Key policy recommendations in the From Red Tape to Green Gold, the second in a series of two reports on our minerals sector authored by research...
The effort by Taranaki local authorities to streamline regulations for the region’s extractive industries has come too late for at least one small quarry owner. BY NEIL RITCHIE.
Late last year New Plymouth District Council general manager (strategy) Liam Hodgetts told an oil and gas conference in the city that the region’s four...
