Attitude gets the job Q&M

Attitude gets the job

Driving our biggest mining machine Nineteen-year-old Ella didn’t think she stood a chance, when she applied to be a forklift operator at a quarry. Story supplied by AB LIME. ELLA NELSON COMES from a family of farmers and machinery operators and was consciously applying for jobs in agricultural machinery. But all she was getting back...
Industry born and bred Q&M

Industry born and bred

The New Zealand that quarryman Roger Jordan returned to after more than a decade in Hong Kong was very different from the country he’d left behind. Hugh de Lacy talks to him. On the eve of the return of the British colony of Hong Kong to China in July 1997, Roger Jordan was so concerned about the aftermath that he sent his family home...
Attitude gets the job driving our biggest miner machine Q&M

Attitude gets the job driving our biggest miner machine

Nineteen-year-old Ella didn’t think she stood a chance, when she applied to be a forklift operator at a quarry. Story supplied by AB Lime. Ella Nelson comes from a family of farmers and machinery operators and was consciously applying for jobs in agricultural machinery. But all she was getting back was a steady stream of emails...
Saluting a veteran Q&M

Saluting a veteran

 When Keith Tahu retired at the end of last year from Bellingham Quarries in Kaitaia, where he worked with three generations of the Bellingham family, the directors were there to salute him. By David Bellingham. When my brother Brian and I started work at Bellingham Quarries in 1976, 42 years ago, Keith Tahui had already been working...
National Excavator Operator Competition 2019 results Q&M

National Excavator Operator Competition 2019 results

The winners of the CCNZ’s 25th National Excavator Operator Competition held in Feilding last month were: Riki Lum, Northland (Clements Contractors) First Place and Contractor magazine’s One-Day -Job; Jim Beamsley, Manawatu (Central Demolition) Second Place; Josh Keane, Otago (Southroads) Third Place; and Jason Toomer-Reti, Auckland...
Bringing Waiuta’s mining focus back to life Q&M

Bringing Waiuta’s mining focus back to life

Waiuta, the town at the top of the West Coast’s richest gold mine, has a new lease of life after growing from the region’s last great gold discovery, back in 1905. A new book, called Hard Won Gold – Stories from Waiuta and the Reefton Goldfield, has been published with a focus on how the very tricky deposits of the goldfield...
New West Coast mine milestone Q&M

New West Coast mine milestone

New Zealand Petroleum & Minerals granted Tasman Mining a Mining Permit for the high-grade Blackwater gold deposit near Reefton on the West Coast. This approval grants the right to mine gold and silver from the site for a 20 year period. Six decades after gold mining ceased, Tasman Mining aims to  set up an underground mine at the...
A mineral export once more valuable than treasure Q&M

A mineral export once more valuable than treasure

Peter Owens reviews a mineral we once exported to the UK that had unprecedented value to the allied victory in WW1. From the ‘forgotten history’ archives, our country played a key role in the manufacture of top quality artillery shells for the British Army on the Western Front during WW1, and in the building of ships for the Royal...
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