B.H.P. Prospecting On West Coast
(New Zealand Press Association) WESTPORT, November 6.
The large Australian mining complex, Broken Hill Proprietary, Ltd, has begun its first search for minerals in New Zealand.
A spokesman for the company said in Westport today that two prospecting teams would work in New Zealand, one in each island.
B.H.P. applied in the Westport Warden’s Court today for the right to prospect over 7404 acres of hill country, embracing the Mount Radiant area, between Karamea and Westport. The application was recommended to the Minister of Mines (Mr Shand) for approval. The spokesman said that molybdenum and nickel were the main metals being sought, and tiie company hoped to find fairly large deposits
which t could mine economically. “We are not so interested in small rich deposits,” he said.
Two geologists would start prospecting in the Mount Radiant area in about a week. Helicopters would probably be used to ferry men and equipment over difficult hill country to a base camp. Several areas in both islands would be looked at in time, and the survey programme would be reviewed from year to year, the spokesman said.
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31830, 7 November 1968, Page 22
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