Post by Brent George on Nov 14, 2023 19:10:34 GMT
Court Action over proposed Gold Mine under Conservation land (and Legal Road)
Stuff - Environment: 27-Mar-2023
[This news was raised again this week (12-Nov-2023)]
Activists have launched legal action over plans for a new gold mine in a Coromandel rainforest.
OceanaGold hopes to develop an underground mine, and dig a 6.8km tunnel, under public conservation land at Wharekirauponga, north of Waihī.
In 2021, Hauraki District Council granted the company the right to occupy road reserve on Willows Road, a paper road, for just $1 per year, to allow for the construction of infrastructure.
The construction of a ventilation shaft, helipad and staff accommodation will only be on four areas of road reserve, with access to the proposed facility from an underground tunnel off private land, with no mining on conservation land at surface level.
Regardless of the environmental and political issues here, as a surveyor I would be most interested in the positioning control and precision methodology for this project. It would be a nice challenge to construct a ~7km tunnel with extrusions that pop-up in four different places - all within a 20.12m wide corridor, and then construct the infrastructure within the narrow zone!
Stuff - Environment: 27-Mar-2023
[This news was raised again this week (12-Nov-2023)]
Activists have launched legal action over plans for a new gold mine in a Coromandel rainforest.
OceanaGold hopes to develop an underground mine, and dig a 6.8km tunnel, under public conservation land at Wharekirauponga, north of Waihī.
In 2021, Hauraki District Council granted the company the right to occupy road reserve on Willows Road, a paper road, for just $1 per year, to allow for the construction of infrastructure.
The construction of a ventilation shaft, helipad and staff accommodation will only be on four areas of road reserve, with access to the proposed facility from an underground tunnel off private land, with no mining on conservation land at surface level.
Regardless of the environmental and political issues here, as a surveyor I would be most interested in the positioning control and precision methodology for this project. It would be a nice challenge to construct a ~7km tunnel with extrusions that pop-up in four different places - all within a 20.12m wide corridor, and then construct the infrastructure within the narrow zone!