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WorkSafe quarry visit discussion
MinEx is getting numerous phone calls from quarries that have been visited by WorkSafe, as the agency increasingly enforces the Health and Safety at Work Act...
Foamed bitumen pavements thwart Cyclone Debbie
Amid the devastation caused by tropical Cyclone Debbie in Australia, March 2017, Queensland’s foamed bitumen stabilised pavements have emerged unscathed. Originally published in the July-August...
Longburn Shingle Company: a case study
The Longburn Shingle company has been producing crushed and washed aggregates from its plant at Palmerston North for more than 30 years. Longburn specialises in...
Solid Energy sells assets
Solid Energy has settled the sales of two of its South Island mines as it winds up the company and sells off assets. By Peter...
Bruce’s legacy – three generations in lime
Alan Titchall revisits Websters Hydrated Lime in the Hawke’s Bay as it opens more resource with new consents that guarantee the operation for another 70...
The Norton family: Celebrating family and mining heritage
This article first appeared in Q&M‘s April-May issue. We mined clay in this country before mining coal, and back in February over 100 folk from...
The road to better quality basecourse
This article first appeared in Q&M‘s February-March issue. John Donbavand, the NZTA National Pavements manager, made a presentation at the NZTA-NZIHT conference in Dunedin late...
Q&M magazine (December 2016 – January 2017)
On the cover: Sandvik QE441 scalper – Screening with brute power Coverlines: A state of the art quarry – A look inside the re-opened Miners Road Quarry …...
Better days ahead for minerals industry
This article first appeared in Q&M‘s December-January issue. Over the past two years the international minerals industry has been hard hit all over the world...