The battle for Waihi
OceanaGold wants to talk to opponents of its gold mine expansion plans, but minds are already made up.
The town of Waihi, with the old Martha mine, centre right, and the tailings dams further away to the left.
Kit Wilson was once an anti-mining activist in the Coromandel. The full beard-and-sandals kind, he says.
He’s still in the Coromandel but these days employs his gift of the gab for Toronto-listed gold mining company OceanaGold.
He dates his conversion to a challenge 30 years ago from a predecessor
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