From left: Jason Hinton, Quarry Divisional Manager; Jake Rouse, Western Hills Quarry Manager; and Alistair McIntyre – also known as Doug the Digger.
Alan Titchall catches up with the country’s youngest quarry manager, Jake Rouse, who looks after the Western Hills Quarry operation in Whangarei for Clements Contractors.
Jake Rouse...
Blackhead now operates the largest fleet of Metso mobile crushing and screening equipment in the country as it changes its production strategy. Edited by ALAN TITCHALL.
IN JULY LAST year Mimico supplied Blackhead Quarries with a Metso Lokotrack LT106 mobile jaw crusher along with an LT200HP mobile cone crusher and an ST3.5 mobile screen...
Rodney Aggregates Whangaripo Quarry is located northeast of Warkworth. The site has been quarried on and off since the 1930s, and was revamped into a full-scale operation in 2006 in a JV partnership between Fulton Hogan and GBC Winstone. By ALAN TITCHALL.
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Jon McAllister has resided in Matamata for the past...
Fulton Hogan has more than 80 years’ experience in the transport, water, energy, mining, civil construction and land development infrastructure here, in Australia and in the South Pacific. Jules Fulton and Bob Hogan teamed up as partners in 1933 to start a contracting business and to create a future for their families. Today, those...
Christchurch’s raucous NIMBY (not in my backyard) voices are in full cry as Fulton Hogan battles for a long-designated new quarry site. HUGH DE LACY reports.
MIKE HIGGINS BLAMES the planners for the mounting supply problems in aggregate-rich Christchurch that are reflected in the bitter opposition to Fulton Hogan opening a new quarry...
Fulton Hogan’s Canterbury quarrying operation has been given a lift in productivity and efficiency with the addition of three new crushers from Kleemann. By MARY SEARLE BELL.
FULTON HOGAN HAS been in the quarry industry for more than 80 years and processes rock and aggregates at around 45 different sites throughout New Zealand and...
This article first appeared in Q&M's April-May issue.
The Huntly section of the Waikato Expressway project will soon have its own quarry providing rock to the roading project. By MARY SEARLE BELL.
As part of the project works, a massive 57-metre-high cut at Taupiri Pass will see 1.2 million cubic metres of earth removed from the...
Global Transport recently achieved a heavy haulage project that involved a shipment of mining gear from Peru to Macraes Mine in Otago. MARY SEARLE details the complicated passage from South America to Central Otago.
Global Transport was contracted to get five Cat 789D dump trucks onto a ship in a Chilean port, across the South...
This article first appeared in Q&M's December-January issue.
RICHARD SILCOCK takes a look at a quarry that, after being mothballed for a number of years, was reopened in 2008 following a decision to invest in a sand, chip and aggregate plant to supply the expanding demands of the Christchurch and wider Canterbury markets.
The...
