Exporting Central Otago schist Quarrying

Exporting Central Otago schist

DENISE MCNABB explains how an Otago aggregate resource has hit a nerve with overseas markets. China calling Last year a Chinese buyer visited most of Central Otago’s 10 or so licensed quarries in the Upper Clutha and other parts of Central Otago to canvass interest about shipping bulk schist to China. Glen Dennison operates a...
Dolomite from high on the hill Quarrying

Dolomite from high on the hill

Dolomite is only mined commercially in this country on the Wakamarama Range, and Takaka-based Sollys has found a niche market supplying it to the fertiliser manufacturing industry. RICHARD SILCOCK explains. ABOUT FIVE KILOMETRES up a steep gravel road on the slopes of Mt Burnett, part of the Wakamarama Range to the south of...
Kiwi quarry gardens lead the way Quarrying

Kiwi quarry gardens lead the way

An old Whangarei quarry site turned into a ‘quarry garden’ has been promoted as a ‘template’ for converting a disused Aussie site into botanical gardens. THE TOOWOOMBA REGIONAL COUNCIL in Queensland, in conjunction with the incorporated Friends of the Quarry Gardens, is conducting a $250,000 Queensland Government-funded...
Reducing dependence on fixed plant Quarrying

Reducing dependence on fixed plant

Blackhead now operates the largest fleet of Metso mobile crushing and screening equipment in the country as it changes its production strategy. Edited by ALAN TITCHALL. IN JULY LAST year Mimico supplied Blackhead Quarries with a Metso Lokotrack LT106 mobile jaw crusher along with an LT200HP mobile cone crusher and an ST3.5 mobile screen...
A legacy of innovation Quarrying

A legacy of innovation

Holcim’s Hastings Quarry has a legacy for getting maximum efficiencies from its equipment for alluvial aggregate production. ALAN TITCHALL talks to Hans Hollis, operations manager aggregates, Hastings, on its past and present machines. HOLCIM’S HASTINGS QUARRY started out as Fraser Shingle and was bought by Hawkes Bay Farmers...
A crusher story in two parts Quarrying

A crusher story in two parts

Rodney Aggregates Whangaripo Quarry is located northeast of Warkworth. The site has been quarried on and off since the 1930s, and was revamped into a full-scale operation in 2006 in a JV partnership between Fulton Hogan and GBC Winstone. By ALAN TITCHALL. A word from the distributor Jon McAllister has resided in Matamata for the past...
A family brand 
makes public its quarry plans Quarrying

A family brand 
makes public its quarry plans

Fulton Hogan has more than 80 years’ experience in the transport, water, energy, mining, civil construction and land development infrastructure here, in Australia and in the South Pacific. Jules Fulton and Bob Hogan teamed up as partners in 1933 to start a contracting business and to create a future for their families. Today, those...
The battle of
 Dawsons Road quarry Quarrying

The battle of
 Dawsons Road quarry

Christchurch’s raucous NIMBY (not in my backyard) voices are in full cry as Fulton Hogan battles for a long-designated new quarry site. HUGH DE LACY reports. MIKE HIGGINS BLAMES the planners for the mounting supply problems in aggregate-rich Christchurch that are reflected in the bitter opposition to Fulton Hogan opening a new quarry...
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