A delivery of giant Hitachi mining excavators from CablePrice ushers in a new era at the Stockton opencast mine on the West Coast.
Can a quarry open with a non-notified resource consent? Yes, it can happen, as Hugh de Lacy explains.
A mid-career change from wood to stone has seen James Boyce accomplish a lot in a short time as he leads from the front in the aggregates industry. He explains why it’s an industry he loves.
It’s the only one in New Zealand, and one of only 10 in the world processing gold, but the autoclave at Oceana Gold Corporation’s Macraes site is a key to the viability of both its Macraes and Reefton goldmines.
When it goes into full production this year Pike River will be the country’s largest output underground coalmine, producing up to one million tonnes per annum over its projected 18-year life. Bringing the mine into production has been a saga of rockfall, big engineering, and sheer dogged persistence.
Carrying Southland lignite coal to North Dakota appears to be taking the ‘coals to Newcastle’ approach to the extreme, but it may help unlock Southland lignite developments.
Solid Energy started 2009 focused on its long-term strategy of business expansion underpinned by high and predictable cash flows from its export coal business and, after five record months of revenue, its balance sheet was very strong.
There are a number of issues that companies and industry groups need to be concerned about over the court decision on Meridian Energy’s Project Hayes, says George Kelcher,general manager of Road Metals and IoQ past president.
A quarry came with it
From paper to rock
Good use of a pressure cooker
The making of Pike River
Squeezing water from lignite
For the good of the country
Project Hayes ramifications