There’s been steady progress on site safety, but there’s a heap more to do, according to WorkSafe’s new Chief Inspector Extractives. HUGH DE LACY explains.
LIKE THE TWO people who preceded him at WorkSafe’s High Hazards Unit (HHU), Paul Hunt feels he has his work cut out for him to accelerate the uptake and embedding of the...
The Pike River Recovery Agency, tasked with the Pike River Re-entry, is based in Greymouth. The agency was set up this year with a specific purpose: to develop a plan for safe manned re-entry to the mine drift; to provide advice to Andrew Little (the Minister Responsible for the Pike River Re-entry) on whether that could be safely...
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....
The West Coast is set to have a new, small, open-cast coal mine, with state-owned enterprise Solid Energy applying to the West Coast Regional Council for the resource consents necessary to develop an area in the Peerless Valley near Reefton.
Solid Energy, currently in voluntary administration, wants to set up a one-hectare pit to mine...
Coal miner Solid Energy has suffered a sharp decline in its fortunes over the past two years and it fronted up the AusIMM conference in Hamilton a very changed outfit.
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