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[Otago Daily Times:] Photo supplied. New Zealand's resource sector has reported a mainly positive year of growth around New Zealand in 2009, and swelled Treasury coffers with a 470% increase in royalties to $519 million, but the Government's decision to review its overall mineral resources, at the potential cost of some conservation areas, signals a difficult year ahead.
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