Check on rutile prospecting
PA Wellington Environmentalists will fly to remote Transit Beach, in Fiordland National Park, this week to check the impact of rutile prospecting. Approval to work the park for the mineral was granted last year to the Australianbased company, Consolidated Minerals. Rutile is used in the manufacture of paint. Work W >U start on Wednesday with Australian geologists using hand-drills to take soil samples. The prospecting is expected to take about a month. The secretary of the Environmental Defence Society, Mr Gary Taylor, said yesterday that the beach, south of Milford Sound, was regarded as “benchmark” bush. “It is primordial bush not changed by opossums or deer,” he said. “It is a sort of .benchmark against which the rest of New Zealand is assessed."
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Press, 10 March 1982, Page 13
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