10 Aug 2017

Mining company gets approval to dig for ironsands

From Checkpoint, 6:11 pm on 10 August 2017

Trans Tasman Resources has won the right to dig 50 million tonnes of ironsands a year from the South Taranaki ocean floor and extract 5 million tonnes of iron ore from it.

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