Pictured above: Earlier days at Puketutu Island Quarry
By Andy Loader quarry industry veteran
I was asked to write an article about quarrying over the past 50-odd years as part of the celebration of the fifty year anniversary of the Aggregate and Quarrying Association. So I sat and thought about the subject. Looking back I realise that...
The New Zealand that quarryman Roger Jordan returned to after more than a decade in Hong Kong was very different from the country he’d left behind. Hugh de Lacy talks to him.
On the eve of the return of the British colony of Hong Kong to China in July 1997, Roger Jordan was so concerned about the aftermath that he sent his family home...
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...
