Citumi, a major supplier of specialty industrial consumables to the civil, tunnelling and mining industries, has come a long way since the days when industrial hose and fittings and basic mining consumables were its core products.
It is not very often a new quarry opens in this country and Q&M was invited up on Rainbow Mountain near Rotorua for the official opening of a new resource quarried by McRobbie Dowling.
It’s a long way from Sheffield, Yorkshire, to Matamata, but Caroline Baker has not only set up home in New Zealand, she has the distinction of being one of the few women in the industry to hold B- and A-grade quarry manager’s certificates.
Business analysts say that reducing costs should be the number one tactic for companies in tough economic times. Quarrying is an energy intensive sector, with energy making up as much as 21 percent of total cost of supplies (excluding labour).
There’s a card hanging in the administration office at Whitehall Quarry from the local primary school that simply reads, “From us to you – thank you”.
Lindsay Clark details two alluvial mining projects that are about to get off the ground in Central Otago, drawn by the lure of high gold prices.
Tuffstuds are chromium carbide laden wear resistant alloy studs that arc welded onto wear surfaces to greatly increase their service life.
An on-going study between the University of Auckland and Actronic Technologies illustrates huge savings in fuel, equipment and labour costs per tonne of material moved by using Loadrite onboard electronic weighing systems to optimise truck loading.
