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Tāiko Critical Minerals has lodged a fast-track application to extract mineral sands from its privately owned farmland on the southern block of its West Coast mining operation. TCM chief executive Robert Brand said the application follows resource consents for mining at its central block, for its wet concentrator plant at Barrytown Flats and for a mineral separation plant at Rapahoe. Brand said the southern block was an important stage of the project, allowing it to proceed with its "mine to market" strategy for refining lower value ore into high value minerals, for direct export to offshore customers. The NZX-listed company's core asset is held under its Barrytown mining permit covering 1250 hectares of coastal heavy mineral sands located about 30 kilometres from Greymouth. The south block extension extends to its Canoe Creek, Barrytown Farms and Cargill South blocks.