No new mines on conservation land policy: Our role
Coal mining is concentrated in Waikato, West Coast, Canterbury, Otago and Southland. Alluvial gold mining is most common in the central West Coast but is also undertaken in other regions such as Otago and Southland. Hard rock gold mining is proposed at Waihi and Karangake in the Coromandel, and at Macraes in Otago.