Looking back on Rotowaro
For five years from 2011 the Rotowaro Coalfield and Opencast Mine extraction and overburden removal contract was taken over by Stevenson Mining (for state-owned Solid...
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In the safety seat
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....
Preparing to enter Pike River
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...
Persistence brings rewards
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...
New open-cast coal mine in Peerless Valley
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...
Future still bleak for Solid Energy
Coal miner Solid Energy has suffered a sharp decline in its fortunes over the past two years and it fronted up the AusIMM conference...