Time to book for QuarryNZ 2025
It’s now little more than three months to QuarryNZ 2025. Conference organiser Melissa Bahler says Early Bird registrations have been selling well. The discounted packages...
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The year ahead
So here we are in 2025 – a quarter of a way through the century – and hopefully all refreshed and raring to go. The...
A jam jar packed conference
Jayden Ellis, Chair, AQA. Sorry if you missed QuarryNZ – it was a heck of a conference. We are using this edition of Aggregate News to...
Demand Driven
AQA Chair comment from Jayden Ellis as published in the association’s news section in the October-November issue of Q&M magazine. The pre-Election period is full...
Need technical help? Call Mike
Mike Chilton regards himself as the Technical Help Desk for AQA members; and he’s wanting you to use him more. After completing a mining engineering...
Wetlands revisions a win, but no champagne
In early December 2022, the Government’s revised regulations on wetland development were gazetted. It was a win for the quarry sector led by the AQA,...
Time to shape up on recruitment
When the brain drain from New Zealand to Australia peaked in the early 1980s, former PM Robert Muldoon quipped that it raised the IQ of...
Politics vs policy
People in the quarry industry need to understand the difference between politics and policy and most things don’t really change that much when either one...