Leading Kiwi miner opts for Hydraulink
Bathurst Resources has appointed hydraulic maintenance and safety services provider Hydraulink to advance its objectives over its mines producing for the domestic market. Hydraulink is...
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Supplying aggregate for Hi-Lab
A Huntly quarry owned by Gleeson and Cox is producing aggregate to meet the special requirements of the Hi-Lab road paving being used on sections...
Farewell to a veteran
Veteran quarryman Russell Vickers, one of the best known and respected quarrymen in the country, passed away back in August aged 84. By Neil Ritchie....
Minerals are essential to the nation
Leading up to the 2020 Minerals Forum in Hamilton this month (October) Straterra has produced Briefing Document: Mining in New Zealand – 2020. “The purpose...
Global database of mine tailings storage facilities
Environmental organisation GRID-Arendal, with support from the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), says it has launched the world’s first publicly-accessible global database of mine tailings storage facilities. The...
Good neighbours
We published this grape and aggregate story some years ago in Q&M magazine as an excellent, if not unique, example of where a quarry neighbour...
Grapes vs Rocks
AQA Communications Adviser Brendon Burns had resolved to stay out of the fray when residents in the valley he also lives in near Blenheim, geared...
For the love of rock
ANDY LOADER reviews past and present quarries in the Queen City as it goes through a massive development stage, and asks – where is the...