Prospecting on Coromandel
P ( A ' ;■.s's s Auckland. ' f Gold Mines of New Zea-; land will be allowed to j develop four diamond? drill-1 tng sites in a gold prospect-1 ing programme on the; Kuaotunu' Peninsula, on the' east Coromandel coast. A Thames. Coromandel; District Council committee has heard 25 objectors to the scheme, but decided in favour of the company, said the council’s planner, Mr G. Lawrence. Environmental and conservation issues dominated objections, though one submission argued that granting a licence would contravene the Gleneagles Agreement?
I; since the company had ; South African links. i The company is owned by (Venture Holdings, an Australian subsidiary of the : i transnational Anglo-Ameri-:jcan group largely controlled |by the Johannesburg mining [land finance magnate, Harry Oppenheim. > If gold is discovered, the i company will have to make 1 a full environmental impact . report before mining may start, the planning com- • mittee decided. Black Jack scenic reserve • was ruled out of bounds to ; the prospectors and known s historic sites were not to be J interferred with.
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Press, 22 July 1980, Page 4
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