Resource Management: We believe it is unnecessary to extract more gold, as there is already enough above ground to fulfill the medical and technological needs of the world for the foreseeable future and that the lands and waters of the Coromandel/ Hauraki are better used by industries that preserve its natural values. We support the development of resource reuse – ewaste mining. 

Environment: Gold and other precious metals are a finite resource already fulfilling a function within the earth. Mining these resources is not sustainable and risks loss of habitat and wild spaces, impacts on indigenous species including potential loss of fragile and rare species such as the Archey’s, water pollution and a longterm legacy of toxic waste.

Economic: The environment underpins the economy. People are sustained by what the land and waters produce and by visitors spending money in the region. Mining will threaten our economy. Waihi is a good example of failure to thrive economically despite/ as a result of mining in the heart of the community. Nationally mining brings considerably less economic benefit, and certainly not a sustainable one, to New Zealand, than tourism, farming, forestry or many of our other contributors that are compromised by this activity.