The global credit crunch is doing strange things to the country’s two main mineral exports, gold and coal.
The supply of high performance concrete for the isolated Pike River coal tunnel project had its challenges.
Three families from the Pokeno region in the northern Waikato share a social and business relationship extending two centuries and four generations, and now centres around a large resource of local greywacke.
Driving over certain areas of Auckland’s motorway, your tyres will be gripping the latest in skid resistant asphalt containing a special aggregate from Winstones Aggregates branded ‘Gripchip’.
Now National’s in power what can the quarry and mining industry expect in terms of changes?