The gloom that has hung over the extractives industries in the near-decade since the global financial crisis seemed finally to have lifted at September's conference in Christchurch of the New Zealand branch of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Mineralogy (AusIMM). By HUGH DE LACY.
THERE WAS NO DANCING in the streets by the 220...
This article first appeared in Q&M's February-March issue.
Bathurst Resources has become the country’s pre-eminent coal producer. By PETER OWENS.
Bathurst fought long, hard and expensively to commission its Escarpment coal project on the West Coast only to be hit by the coal price crash when it finally won the right to proceed....
This article first appeared in Q&M's December-January issue.
Coal is an important resource in this country and there is a profound relief in the industry that the international price of that resource is rising steadily.
This country has extensive coal resources, mainly in the Waikato and Taranaki regions of the North Island and the...
Some planned, possible or postponed minerals projects got a good hearing at the 2016 AusIMM New Zealand Branch Conference. By NEIL RITCHIE.
Bathurst Resources chief executive Richard Tacon sounded positive when talking about the likely resurrection of plans to develop the open-cast Escarpment coal mine on the Denniston Plateau, inland...
At a time when the coal mining industry is in a trough throughout New Zealand and Australia, one company is doing well.
Bathurst Resources surprised some coal industry watchers by recording a profit in the December 2015 half year. The company posted a net after-tax profit of $142,000 for the reporting period, compared with a loss of...
The recent annual report of Bathurst Resources reflects the “feet on the ground” attitude of executive director and chief executive, Richard Tacon, who has no illusions about the coal extraction industry.
However, he is not dropping down dead in the face of low prices.
Tacon says often – loudly and with conviction ¬– that it...
