Quarrying and Mining magazine editor Alan Titchall reports from the second Minerals Forum held in Dunedin recently.
Dawn breaks over the Octagon. I don't know it, but I am about to walk into a battle at the Harrop Street entrance to the Dunedin Town Hall conference venue. I didn't get the txt that said show up before 6am to avoid the...
New Zealand Petroleum & Minerals granted Tasman Mining a Mining Permit for the high-grade Blackwater gold deposit near Reefton on the West Coast. This approval grants the right to mine gold and silver from the site for a 20 year period.
Six decades after gold mining ceased, Tasman Mining aims to set up an underground mine at the...
Original press release from AQA chair Jared Johnston.
I am very pleased to report that today's AQA Board meeting has unanimously confirmed the appointment of Wayne Scott as our new Chief Executive, effective from Monday October 1.
We appointed Wayne from a field of outstanding candidates on the basis that he will continue to also be...
Applications for the new job of chief of MinEx close May 1.
Touted as a “rare and valuable opportunity to influence and assist the minerals industry to achieve significant improvements in health and safety performance”, the new person could be taking on a big task if calls for association consolidation are met.
Major stakeholders...
A number of councils are currently reviewing and implementing new district or city plans. The signals do not look good for the extractive sector including quarries, says Straterra’s Bernie Napp.
From Auckland to Southland, councils are preparing the plans that will guide their resource management for the next decade. Here is a sample...
The following is a précis of the speech that CHRIS BAKER, chair of MinEx and CEO of Straterra, made to the 2015 QuarryNZ conference last month.
I know there have been many concerns raised within the quarry sector over recent months; what right has MinEx to represent quarries; don’t they understand, a quarry is very different to a...
In the third of our new interview series we have a casual chat with Ilana Miller, national manager minerals at NZP&M, who started her career as a veterinarian.
How long have you been in the industry?
Though relatively new to the minerals sector, I have been involved in regulatory roles since 2011, when I moved back to New Zealand...
