Bob is still on the job
Bob Pearson is probably the oldest person working with an A-Grade Certificate of Competence. He’s now contemplating full retirement – at 85! Based in Winton,...
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Fulfilling a family legacy
Q&M magazine talks to Jason Withers, the Production Manager at Pacific Aggregates in Otorohanga. Jason was born and raised in Otorohanga and still lives there...
Call for QuarryNZ papers
The 2025 QuarryNZ Conference organising committee are asking for readers who are interested in presenting papers at the conference to submit them by December 13....
Environmental regulatory changes
Mike Doesburg, Partner at Wynn Williams who specialises in environmental and resource management law. As the meme goes: in 1920 we took children out of...
Lincom NZ now with Stevens Group
Pictured above: Stevens Group general manager Ken Johnston (left) and Lincom Group chief executive officer Stephen Watterson. Last month the Stevens Group bought the New Zealand...
Wellington, we have a problem
By Wayne Scott, chief executive, Aggregate and Quarry Association. Our country has a $75 billon plus infrastructure deficit to meet, Infrastructure Commission, CEO Ross Copland...
Freshwater standards implications
The AQA is concerned with new National Environmental Standards for Freshwater Regulations 2020 as it relates to the minerals and aggregate sector (and earthworks generally)....
Waitangi Day 2021 employment obligations
This year, Waitangi Day falls on Saturday 6 February, which means the holiday is moved to the following Monday – 8 February. If an employee...
A win for quarry consenting
Simcox Quarry has won a consent to extract more aggregate after a year-long fight with local objections. This fight featured in the April edition of...
Still in action 214 million tonnes and 74,000 hours later
OceanaGold has retired one of its massive Hitachi EX3600-5 excavators from its Macraes Gold Mine in Central Otago, but its lifetime of delivering exceptional reliability...