Mine slams doomsayer theories

People at a packed public meeting at Whakapara Community Hall were told by Mine Watch Northland-coalition members that Northland's local governments were failing in their duty to ratepayers with their seemingly at-all-costs invitation to minerals companies to explore and exploit the region.

As well as an alleged lack of consultative processes, among topics aired was the tax that toxic-based gold mining would have on the region's natural resources and infrastructure.

The keyhole extraction method - as opposed to Newmont's huge, open cast Martha Mine at Waihi - would break into and create a chain of contamination through the underground aquifers common in epithermal geology, and the mining itself would require as much electricity and cement as Northland could produce, Far North Forest and Bird chairman Dean Baigent-Mercer said.
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