Documents: Mining

NZSFC submissions – South Island – Feb 2024

NZSFC submissions – North Island – Feb 2024

Report. Recreation and Tourism Assessment of Effects. October 2013

This report commissioned by Trans-Tasman Resources Ltd assesses the effects of seabed mining on recreation and tourism in the South Taranaki Bight to be mostly minor to moderate. The NZSFC do not agree with this assessment.

Decision. Marine consent. EPA. 17 June 2014.

Decision by the Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) refusing the marine consent application by Trans-Tasman Resources Ltd to excavate iron sand. 17 June 2014.

NPSUC Submission. Seabed mining South Taranaki Bight. 27 Jan 2014.

The New Plymouth Sportfishing & Underwater Club oppose the marine resource application made to the Environmental Protection Authority by Trans-Tasman Resources Ltd to mine iron sand in the South Taranaki Bight. There are already many manmade restrictions on recreational use of the area, and there are concerns that any industrial disturbance of the natural environment will be severely disturbing. 27 January 2014.

Decision. Marine and marine discharge consents. EPA. 3 Aug 2017.

Decision by the Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) to approve the application for marine consents and marine discharge consents by Trans-Tasman Resources Ltd to undertake restricted activities and the consents are issued subject to conditions. These marine consents and marine discharge consents expire 35 years after the date of the granting of the consents.

TTR impact assessment report. South Taranaki Bight. August 2016

Trans-Tasman Resources Ltd impact assessment report in support of their marine consent and marine discharge consent applications relating to the South Taranaki Bight seabed mining application. These applications follow a previous application to mine the seabed for iron sand in 2013. That 2013 seabed mining application was declined on a number of grounds. 320 pages of detail.

TTR discharge consent application. South Taranaki Bight. 23 August 2016

Trans-Tasman Resources Ltd application for a marine discharge consent to undertake a notified or non-notified discretionary activity, under s87B of the Exclusive Economic Zone and Continental Shelf (Environmental Effects) Act 2012.

TTR application. Seabed mining Taranaki. 23 August 2016

Trans-Tasman Resources Ltd application to mine the seabed off Patea for iron sand. TTR plan to extract a maximum of 50 million tonnes of the seabed each year for a period of 35 years, in depths ranging from 19 to 42 metres. The proposal area covers 65.76 square kilometres of seabed between 22 to 36 kilometres offshore of Patea, in the South Taranaki Bight. TTR will process the extracted material, remove then export up to 5 million tonnes of iron sand per year, for up to 35 years.

NPSUC submission. Seabed mining Taranaki. 14 October 2016

The New Plymouth Sport Fishing and Underwater Club submission opposes the Trans-Tasman Resources Ltd application based on the grounds that the applicant, TTR, has not provided all available data on the environmental impacts. The information that has been presented fails to address the Club's concerns, and there is no evidence that the seabed mining work can be carried out in a way which will not negatively affect the marine environment.