A reprieve for Kiwi Point Q&M

A reprieve for Kiwi Point

Kiwi Point Quarry’s consent to extend the existing area of the quarry highlights a problem all regions now face in this country when it comes to our aggregate resources. Last month Wellington City Council approved recommendations on a District Plan Change to extend Holcim’s Kiwi Point Quarry located close to Wellington city....
The Biscuit Tin Q&M

The Biscuit Tin

A fictional story by Robert Smith. It is 8am and our house is in an uproar. Today my brother leaves for France. Bob, Charles, Myrtle - shake a bloody leg; the war will be over by the time we get to the railway station. Mum's order barks through the house and returns a volley of protest. Will someone stop the horse eating the...
Heart of gold Q&M

Heart of gold

All stops are being pulled to extend the shelf life of Macraes, our largest gold mine set in the rolling tussock hills of East Otago. DENISE MCNABB visits the mine to meet manager, Matt Hine, whose mandate for a high-achieving and happy team is one for the books. YOU WOULD BE BE HARD-pressed to pick Macraes’ general manager Matt...
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...
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