West Coast mineral sands miner appoints Debbie Birch as chair, prepares to scale with new mine

West Coast mineral sands miner appoints Debbie Birch as chair, prepares to scale with new mine
The new chair of Westland Mineral Sands, Debbie Birch. (Image: Supplied)
Oliver Lewis
A company pioneering mineral sands mining on the West Coast has appointed a new chair as it seeks consents for a major new mine.Westland Mineral Sands (WMS) is a group of companies that holds exploration and prospecting licenses covering thousands of hectares of West Coast farmland from which it wants to extract and export a concentrate containing minerals like ilmenite, garnet and gold, as well as rare earth elements (REE) needed for renewable energy technologies.The company has identified the critical minerals as a major new economic opportun...

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