Kiwis Against Seabed Mining

Trans Tasman Resources : -
Ex Iluka boss comes to New Zealand

Update 30 April 2008

New West Coast prospecting permit application

Trans-Tasman Resources Ltd has been granted Prospercting Permit No 50383 by Crown Minerals a Prospecting Permit covering 6319 sq km of the West Coast North Island seabed in two areas. - Off the Wanganui Taranaki coast and off the Taranaki Waikato Coast.

On the 22 April 2008 Trans-Tasman Resources Ltd lodged a further prospecting application for 2284 sq km of seabed licence on the Taranaki Continental Shelf.

A Director of Trans-Tasman Resources Ltd, West Australian based, Mr Bill Bisset was previously the Executive General Manager for mineral sands miner Iluka Resources until his redundancy in December 2006. Trans-Tasman Resources website

Iluka Resources has a majority shareholding in Consolidated Rutile. For environmental monitoring purposes, Consolidated Rutile were responsible for the ecological disasters at Stradbroke Island on the Queensland Coast.

Trans-Tasman Resources is a New Zealand registered company # 1988836 on 26 September 2007, Registered Office C/- Minter Ellison Rudd Watts, Lumley Center, 88 Shortland St Auckland

The minerals included in the prospecting permit application are: Garnet, Gold, Iron, Magnesium, Rutile, Titanium, Zircon

KASM understands that Iwi had been requested by Crown Minerals to respond on areas of significance by 26 December 2007

Map of the prospecting application area extracted from the Crown Minerals website

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