The serpentine group of minerals found in serpentine rocks is used as a source of magnesium and decorative stone. ALAN TITCHALL takes a closer look at the only ‘serp’ quarry in the North Island.
The serpentine group describes a group of common rock-forming hydrous magnesium iron phyllosilicate minerals.
Their olive green colour and...
With us humans most habits don’t change, despite the hype as each generation credits itself as being cleverer and better off than those in the past.
Kids are brighter – hey, my six-year-old grandson can search the internet! So what? When I was that age I could point out the latest jet liner in the family encyclopaedia collection....
We are all for health and safety here at Contrafed so please read Netta Burnside’s comment with a grain of salt, as the old folks used to say, or don’t take it too literally.
Netta may have written tongue-in-cheek but many of us share her view that when it comes to health and safety issues we don’t want a remedy (or a...
In today’s world of competing internet and print publishing it pays to maximise the strengths of your particular sector, and magazines have a huge advantage over the internet when it comes to bringing together feature themes in depth.
The feature theme in this issue is workplace health and safety, as seen from multiple...
