Looking back on Rotowaro
For five years from 2011 the Rotowaro Coalfield and Opencast Mine extraction and overburden removal contract was taken over by Stevenson Mining (for state-owned Solid...
Category : Historical
The stone mason and the tree
They cut the old totara tree down in 1949, but the quarry named after it continued to live on in a raft of glorious white...
The stone mason and the tree
They cut the old totara tree down in 1949, but the quarry named after it continued to live on in a raft of glorious white...
The first and last Kiwi submarine
PETER OWENS explains why a 19th century submarine is sitting far inland at Middlemarch in Central Otago. BEFORE GABRIEL READ found gold near Lawrence in...