Bathurst Resources Ltd

One of the tours being organised for New Zealand’s largest mining conference will take in the North Island’s two major opencast coal mines.

The March quarter produced positive performances for Bathurst Resources and its BT Mining joint venture mines.

The mystery of who would be speaker at tomorrow night’s Straterra Club meeting in Wellington has been solved, if it really was a mystery.

The environmental group Forest & Bird will appeal the High Court decision against it relating to the proposed Te Kuha coking coal mine.

The Land Information Minister, Eugenie Sage, who is also Conservation Minister defended her reasoning for not allowing Bathurst Resources to take up a mothballed mine in the Buller coalfield, and only showed her true Green colours.

How do you create new mining jobs on the West Coast? Perhaps it’s a good idea to find ways to bypass the anti-mining Conservation and Lands Minister.

The Overseas Investment office has declined an application by Bathurst Resources to take up a mothballed coal mine.

The Stockton coking coal mine proved to be a pearl in the coal mining stable of Bathurst Resources in the December quarter.

Yet another attempt is being made to spike a much-needed coal project on the West Coast by Forest and Bird and this time the organisation may have at least a sympathetic ear through its new Conservation Minister.

The story for Bathurst Resources has been getting better since coal prices climbed out of the cellar, and shareholders were this week given details of a positive future.