Mt Aspiring and Mt Tutoko, the most famous peaks in Otago and Fiordland overlook the Red Hills range

You wouldn't want to drink the water, but this is one of the most distinctive landscapes in New Zealand, thankfully saved from mining in the late 1970s

In the 1970s, the Kennecot mining company bulldozed a road through here, a crime, the scars of which persist despite the relentless sea.  Wild and remote coastal tramping of the kind that is not really available anywhere else in New Zealand

The Cascade is the largest unbridged river in New Zealand.  It seperates the Olivine range from the Red Hills range.  Note ultramafic rock on Olivine range on skyline.

The route to climb Red Mountain is the gully at right.

It is through forest like this that any proposed Haast to Hollyford road would push.  The line bulldozed by Kennecot was just at the high water mark

The ultramafic rock that was once prospected by a US mining company before sanity prevailed.  Red Mountain at centre

If you are, great news, the Government is taking steps to make it easier to stick a big, stinking hole in the middle of the beautiful places where we go to play, work and look after our mental health.  The places that shape us as New Zealanders are being actively investigated for what will happen if we dig them up and sell them to the ...

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