ANDY LOADER reviews past and present quarries in the Queen City as it goes through a massive development stage, and asks – where is the rock coming from?
Based on a presentation at the 2017 AQA/IOQ Conference.
TO SUPPLY THE demand for quarry products Auckland has had many quarries developed around the region over the years, and a...
This article first appeared in Q&M's April-May issue.
Four years ago we were invited to Rocktec’s engineering workshops in Matamata to see the early design of a new vertical shaft impact crusher and screen made for Stevenson’s Drury quarry when it commissioned a $7 million aggregate processing plant with the Kiwi-made VSI...
Stevenson Resources has been moving vast quantities of overburden around its Drury Quarry to get at resources that were never expected to be quarried in the old days.
Drury Quarry is located at the base of the Hunua foothills in Auckland’s southern boundary and is one of the last ‘city’ quarries in the region.
The quarry...
ALAN TITCHALL catches up with one of the busiest quarries in the Waikato region and finds out why the pugmill could become a more a common sight in the pit these days.
Over the past four years Huntly Quarry has produce massive volumes of metal for major roading contracts in the northern Waikato. Almost 700,000 tonnes was produced in one...
