Venture Minerals announced on 3 July that it had been granted a mining lease for its Mt Lindsay tin-tungsten project, and won strong backing from Tasmania’s Resources Minister Paul Harriss in its battle against local environmental campaigners.
Venture said that with the mining lease now granted the company will focus on advancing the application documents required to obtain the State and Commonwealth environmental approvals necessary for the development of the project. Venture also continues to evaluate financing options for the project.
Mr Harriss told local journalists: “The application was thoroughly assessed by Mineral Resources Tasmania in accordance with all relevant legislation. Comments by a Green front group, Save the Tarkine, are complete and utter rubbish and a continuation of the relentless campaign by this organisation to destroy this mining project.”
