Peter Owens reviews a mineral we once exported to the UK that had unprecedented value to the allied victory in WW1.
From the ‘forgotten history’ archives, our country played a key role in the manufacture of top quality artillery shells for the British Army on the Western Front during WW1, and in the building of ships for the Royal...
Australian company Plaman Global is progressing with plans to resurrect diatomite quarrying operations in the South Island, with the potential to earn billions of export dollars over the next three decades. NEIL RITCHIE explains.
A versatile mineral
Diatomite is the naturally occurring fossilised microscopic remains of water-borne,...
