Reefton

That was over the sort of the last year of his life.

But he has made a significant contribution to, to public life here and, and especially in Reefton and in Angahua.

He is a pretty staunch, uh, representative of, of that part of the district.

And you, you know, like, it...

We have decided that we want to create the newest suburb for Greymouth.

Accommodation's been a problem on the coast as local mining operations get going, like Snowy River Gold toward Reefton and a mineral sands mine at Barrytown.

There are a lot of people that have already made the inquiries to come home, who have been fly-in, fly-out to Australia.

They want to come home, or they've moved over there, and they're like, if there's an opportunity, we want to move back to the coast.

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If you go to the west coast of the South Island, we're getting access to their minerals.

Go to Reefton.

We're going to bring our miners back from Western Australia to the Otago gold fields.

Go to Southland.

I live in Greymouth and I see firsthand the impact of that in our community.

And I implore anyone, if you really want to see how important it is, go to Reefton.

Reefton is a startling transformation there in the last 10 years or in the last five years.

You cannot buy a house there.

The place is just booming.

was up there in March, Tamar, actually, and you're right, there is.

There's certainly a lot around my area, though, if I drive from anywhere on the west coast, pretty much driving up to Reefton and then through the Springs Junction, there's goats everywhere, and the Buller Gorge.

There's goats all over.

No, no, no, all over

Yeah, I mean, this was a real validation of our timeline.

We came out very aggressively saying we're going to get the Reefton project on New Zealand's South Island permitted by mid next year.

And we were drilling a resource.

We were completing a study.

We were doing our permitting process, doing all our stakeholder engagement all concurrently.

So that we can hit that timeline.

And what this message from the government says that Ruah Gold's Reefton project is on the fast track permit validates that timeline and says we're on track.

And it's not just us as the company saying we're on track.