A new 52-tonne Hitachi excavator marks further expansion for Rosco Contractors at Echo mine.
Q&M gets a rare opportunity to see a new city quarry site in the planning as Winstone Aggrgates expands its Hunua Quarry.
Netta Burnside confesses she has anxious moment thinking about riding 1000 kilometres across Mongolia. She is one of 35 contestants picked from 10s of 1000s around the world to join this year's Mongolian Derby, an endurance race touted as 'the mother of all equine adventures'.
When the Marsol Pride sliped its moorings in Nelson and headed out to sea at the beginning of March, few people in the town would have realised that a whole new chapter had opened in the history of world gold exploration.
The first round of pioneering offshore test core drilling for placer gold, and other heavy minerals off the West Coast of the South Island has just been completed by Seafield Resources. We look at some of the technical aspects of the task.
The release by the government of its long-awaited stocktake of conservation areas listed in Schedule 4 of the Crown Minerals Act is the perfect time for a rational debate over mining in this country.
This is the second in a two-part article in quarry safety initiatives from the Health & Safety Best Practice Awards (2008 and 2009) put together by the Mineral Product Association in the UK.
While there is concern of opening Schedule 4 land to mining, there is little pulbic awareness of the current protections against adverse and potentially negative impacts of such activities.
The country has witnessed some environmental disasters in the past through the lack of regulations and government controls and one of the worst was the old Tui mine, which is only just starting to be cleaned up.
With diesel proces moving up, locally produced biofuels are getting another look in, and not just for environmental reasons.
Closing the Tui legacy