Looking back with pride
His baptism of fire was the Boatmans Mine disaster of 1985, just weeks after he joined the NZ Mines Rescue Service as a brigade member....
Category : Veteran Profiles
All in a day’s work – complete with cake
How Nicole Pierce’s varied job description is a totally Kiwi thing – right down to a bit of home baking, explains Jane Warwick. Sometimes it...
Forging a path in mining
A winner of the Extractives Industry Trailblazer Award was Kirsty Hollis, a woman with many ‘firsts’ in the industry, all of which are simply the...
What a ride it has been
Image: Mike (right) and driller Barry Wheeler discuss the merits of a good hole collar. Q&M magazine invited industry veteran Mike Henderson to discuss his...
A veteran coal miner and West Coast gentleman
Image: Henry Walter Bell and Governor-General Sir Jerry Mateparae at Government House, Wellington, May 22, 2015 Now in his 90th year, Harry Bell is a...
It started in a quarry
We profiled Alex Mathieson, founder of the family-owned business Real Steel, six years ago. In our IOQ Veteran series, we catch up with him again....
All about good people I have met
Above: Kerry receiving the IOQ Lyn Jordan Award at the 2019 QuarryNZ Conference. In the third profile in our veteran profile series Kerry Reilly writes about...