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Funding secured by diatomite mine firm

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Seed funding of $US20 million ($NZ28.5 million) has been secured by Australian company Plaman Global, which is proposes to mine more than 30 million tonnes of a rare organic black diatomite near Middlemarch, Central Otago.  Diatomite is processed into fertiliser pellets.