A new star in explosives
The need to increase production capacity and introduce new technology led RedBull Powder Company to build a new state-of-the-art explosives manufacturing plant in the Waikato.
Good enough to eat
Agriculture, poultry farms, glass making and even topping your morning cereal - lime is a versatile if not healthful mineral
The plainsman
Warwick Leach leads a busy life as a third-generation director and executive in a rock-solid rural family business and president of the Institute of Quarrying.
The next chapter
There's life left in old Martha yet as Newmont starts extracting the eastern wall of the open pit and pitches for a new underground mine.
Mining coal for liquid fuel
Colamining will take on a whole new future with the prospect of converting our vast lignite reserves into fuel.
Say what... put water in my diesel?
It might seem the antithesis to good fuel management but the Wellington Institute of Technology says mixing water with diesel creates a more efficient fuel and it has complete trials to prove it
Consent planting the smart way
Q&M talks with Lyndale Nurseries Auckland, the biggest propagation nursery in the country, about taking the pain out of quarry and mine site rehabilitation and revegetation.
For public viewing
Work on the Eastern Layback at Newmont Waihi Gold's Martha open pit in Waihi has involved a number of unique engineering challenges fo the benefit of the local community.
