1418 (2025). Lan Pham to the Minister for Resources

Written Question

Published date: 11 Feb 2025

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Document type:	Written Question
Parliament number:	54
Question number:	1418 (2025)
Question asked:	28 Jan 2025
Member asking:	Lan Pham
Portfolio:	Minister for Resources
Minister replying:	Hon Shane Jones
Answer received:	06 Feb 2025
Status:	Question Answered
Reply type:	Reply
Document ID:	WQ_01418_2025
Document guid:	834d2a8e-14e8-4ce6-b972-600f651a8220

1418 (2025). Lan Pham to the Minister for Resources: What, if any, is the total list of minerals currently mined in Aotearoa?

Hon Shane Jones: New Zealand is prospective for a wide range of minerals, including coal, gold, silver, and titanomagnetite ironsand. A number of other industrial rocks and minerals are produced for local and export markets - including various clays, diatomite, perlite, pumice, serpentine, silica and zeolite. Not all are Crown-owned. Minerals that are Crown-owned are subject to the Crown Minerals Act 1991 (CMA). Minerals mining permits granted under the CMA afford the permit holders exclusive rights to mine the Crown-owned minerals named on the permits. Depending on what was applied for and granted, some permits list a single mineral (eg gold) while others enable the permit holder to mine for an entire group or groups of minerals (eg all metallic and/or all non-metallic minerals). Therefore, it is not possible to say with surety what is the total list of minerals currently mined in Aotearoa.