Modern Mining’s Track Record

Modern mining’s track record, including on conservation land, is excellent, as it should be.

Modern mining is conducted responsibly and there are many examples of world-class rehabilitation in New Zealand.

Mining companies must earn, and retain, their social licence to operate. Rehabilitation is integral to any mine plan, and a positive legacy, is the best ticket that a mining company has, to be granted community and regulatory consent for their next investment.

The 8 arguments against the ban (click each argument to see more detail).

• Not all conservation land is high conservation value

• Existing world class environmental safeguards mean a ban is not necessary

• Minerals are essential to the way we live and a crucial part of the low carbon economy

• The ban would lead to a raft of unintended consequences

• Only 0.04% of conservation land is disturbed by mining

• Modern mining’s track record, including on conservation land, is excellent, as it should be

• Mining creates well- paid jobs and is particularly important in for regional economies

• Banning mining on conservation land is a very blunt instrument to curb emissions