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. By NEIL RITCHIE.
THE WELLINGTON HIGH COURT is due to hear various appeals this month (April 16-19) against the Environmental Protection Agency granting Trans-Tasman...
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, and is studying a commercial procedure for separating them from the sand in which they are embedded. By PETER OWENS.
ON CURRENT MARKET values, the rare earth minerals...
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 Eggers believes Environmental Protection Agency approval last August was the final regulatory hurdle the company needed to clear before starting building,...
Trans-Tasman Resources chairman Alan Eggers says Environmental Protection Agency approval of the marine and discharge consents necessary for the company to recover and export iron sands from the South Taranaki Bight will unlock a vast previously untapped world-class resource. By NEIL RITCHIE.
“THE APPROVAL IS the right result, good...
