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Speaker 1: Stand by a mine. Mine the gold rush, the old

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Speaker 1: gold rush could be on the West Coast. Prices continuing

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Speaker 1: to rise. It's over fivey one hundred ounce this morning.

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Speaker 1: Local councils expecting a pick up in the number of

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Speaker 1: people who want to get into the mining business. Development

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Speaker 1: and West Coast Chief Executive Heath Milner's with us. Heath

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Speaker 1: Morning Morning, Mike. I read a story yesterday whining about

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Speaker 1: the paperwork. Is it honestly, if people are coming to

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Speaker 1: the West Coast to open a business, is the paperwork

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Speaker 1: really a problem? Or are you open for business and

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Speaker 1: say let's go.

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Speaker 2: The West Coast has got great support for businesses coming here,

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Speaker 2: and that's not just I'm not talking about local government,

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Speaker 2: but national government as well. You know, we've got a

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Speaker 2: really open for door, a business sign on the door,

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Speaker 2: and we're just looking for investors and people to take

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Speaker 2: advantage of it.

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Speaker 1: Is it real? I mean, just because goal's at fifty

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Speaker 1: one hundred, do you open a mine?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? Well absolutely, it's real. So if you take probably

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Speaker 2: the highest profile mine at the moment that's underway or

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Speaker 2: just getting under one, is Federation mine. Now? I think

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Speaker 2: last time you're and Iceboake there was about two and

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Speaker 2: a half billion dollars worth of gold in that mine

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Speaker 2: that they know is there. Now it's three point six

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Speaker 2: so you know it's it's big money and they're pretty

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Speaker 2: much ready to go. They've just need a little a

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Speaker 2: little bit more capital. So any New zeal And investors

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Speaker 2: that are looking to get a share of that now

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Speaker 2: is the time. And in fact, the Development Trust here

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Speaker 2: we've actually just put three millions into that project because

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Speaker 2: we can see the benefits coming back to the coast.

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Speaker 1: Is the has the tide turned the Shane Jones we

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Speaker 1: actually need to mine forget the greense and the snails

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Speaker 1: for a while. Is that tide turned or not? Well?

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Speaker 2: I think it has for investors at the end of

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Speaker 2: the day, the miners have to follow the regulations anyway,

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Speaker 2: and as much as you know Shane Jones is a

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Speaker 2: bit of a poster child for mining, you know that's

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Speaker 2: that's turning investors on. The miners are still doing exactly

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Speaker 2: the same job. You know, they have to have to

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Speaker 2: do it in the right way to have to get

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Speaker 2: their consents. I'm sure we can some doors, but you know,

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Speaker 2: the miners that conscious that they have to do their

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Speaker 2: job right or they'll lose the lose the public's, public's trust,

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Speaker 2: and they won't be able to continue to operate.

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Speaker 1: You well, that Heath appreciated. There's always Heath milon development.

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Speaker 1: West Coast Tube executive just I should point out the

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Speaker 1: story I read was on Radio New Zealand. You sit

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Speaker 1: around in the newsroom near the Can we think of

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Speaker 1: anything negative about that? Oh, you're the paperwork. If there's

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Speaker 1: a gold rush on the paperwork's going to be a

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Speaker 1: NightWare nightmare.

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