Green light imminent for Bathurst's Escarpment mine

Green light imminent for Bathurst's Escarpment mine
By Pattrick Smellie Aug 8 (BusinessDesk) - Bathurst Resources says it's received notice from the Environment Court that it will approve the company's long-delayed and environmentally controversial application to do open-cast mining for coking coal on the Denniston Plateau. Bathurst had been in trading halt since yesterday afternoon. The shares did not move from the last traded price of 20 cents immediately following this morning's announcement. Managing director Hamish Bohannan said in a statement to the NZX the court had informed parties t...