PERTH – ASX-listed Terramin Australia has launched legal proceedings in the Supreme Court of South Australia against the South Australian government’s refusal for a mining lease and miscellaneous purposes licence for the Bird in Hand gold project.
Terramin on Wednesday said that the Minister’s decision was made notwithstanding an extensive review of the company’s application by the DEM, which made a positive assessment of the application and found that appropriate environmental outcomes could be achieved should the mining lease and miscellaneous purposes licence be granted.
The company stated that among other things, each decision should be set aside on the basis that the decisions misapprehended the statutory power in the Mining Act, were legally unreasonable, did not take into account relevant considerations, took into account an irrelevant consideration, and that Terramin was not accorded procedural fairness.Warren Pearce“Today’s legal action is the inevitable conclusion to a failed government approvals process.