With interest growing in the Foulden Maar mine, The Spinoff republished Juliet’s recent reflection where she outlined her attempt to find out who makes the call on whether or not to approve an application by a majority-Malaysian-owned company to mine at the fossil-rich volcanic site near Middlemarch in Otago.
![foulden-maar-1200x628 Foulden Maar image by Kimberley Collins CC BY-SA 4.0](https://www.pmcsa.ac.nz/files/2019/06/foulden-maar-1200x628-1.jpg)
Foulden Maar pit. Image credit: Kimberley Collins CC BY-SA 4.0.