West Coast sand miners seek to expand

A multi-use barge bought by WMS will have spare capacity to transport other products from the West Coast. (Image: WMS)

Thu, 21 Sep 2023

A mineral sands mining group on the West Coast is already looking to expand its operations after opening its first site in the past year.Westland Mineral Sands (WMS), a group of companies, was granted resource consent to mine a roughly 22-hectare site on private farmland near Cape Foulwind last May.As BusinessDesk reported in January, WMS has already started mining and processing heavy mineral concentrate (HMC) from the site, exporting a number of production run shipments to customers in Asia.Ilmenite, the primary resource at the Cape Foulwind...

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