Quarrying & Mining magazine

24/11/2024

The National Policy Statement for Freshwater Management 2020 (NPS-FM) and the National Environmental Standards for Freshwater (NES-F) ...

23/11/2024

If there is ever a country you want to be banged up in hospital, it is Japan. With an extremely painful, late night stomach and back ache, ..

22/11/2024

Louise Ford and Tait Hoby from Atkins Majurey provide an overview of the new NBEA and SPA Acts and impacts on the sector, and update the ...

21/11/2024

"Boffa Miskell was brought into the on-going project in late 2018 by the client - the Allen Fabrics or Kimihia Lakes Community Charitable Trust - to provide assistance in the long-term planning and delivery of the project, involving landscape concept design and masterplan development, planning services for site re-zoning, and ecological baseline assessments to inform the site rehabilitation programme."

From a landscape assessment in the late 1970s to a large-scale rehabilitation today, Boffa Miskell has a long history of involvement with ...

21/11/2024

27 June 2024: Big raps to NZ Transport Agency Waka Kotahi, the Fulton Hogan team and our many subcontractors for completing the 2km rebuild of the Brynderwyns on SH1 in Northland in time for Matariki Weekend. The Brynderwyns remediation was done under a four-month road closure (with a brief re-openi...

20/11/2024

Last month the Stevens Group bought the New Zealand subsidiary of Lincom Group. including all of Lincom NZ's machines.

19/11/2024

Tait Hoby and Louise Ford, Atkins Holm Majurey discuss recent developments in our common law in relation to ‘tikanga Maori’ (Maori customs) in our legal system and address two decisions of the Independent Hearings Panel regarding McCallum Brothers Ltd (McCallum Brothers) in-shore and mid-shore s...

19/11/2024

https://quarryingandminingmag.co.nz/the-advantage-of-reliable-production-data/

Andy Loader, First Rock Consultancy. We in the extractive industries understand the vital need for aggregates; with the average usage being approximately eight to 10 tonnes per head of population per year. Yet, we have been our own worst enemies in some ways, with our reluctance to give out informat...

17/11/2024

https://quarryingandminingmag.co.nz/at-last-a-vision-for-minerals/

The Government’s new vision for the minerals sector aims to increase national and regional prosperity, provide the minerals needed for new technology and the clean energy transition, and double the value of minerals exports. Resources Minister Shane Jones launched a draft strategy for the minerals...

16/11/2024

https://quarryingandminingmag.co.nz/technology-cant-shoot-it-cant-live-without-it/

Aunty Netta explains what every society whatever end of the world, up there or down here, relies on in common – technology. As long as you know how to use it. There are many differences between the Northern and Southern Hemispheres – time, languages, seasons, traditions, and politics. We inhabit...

15/11/2024

https://quarryingandminingmag.co.nz/wetland-or-minefield/

When the National Environmental Standards for Freshwater (NES-F) were passed in 2020, the wetland provisions felt like a hospital pass of a hand gr***de to the quarrying and mining industry. By Mike Doesburg, Partner, and Emma Burns, lawyer at Wynn Williams. The NES-F now seems like a minefield, whi...

14/11/2024

Facts, not emotive slogans, should be used to determine where mining can take place here, says Straterra CEO Josie Vidal.

14/11/2024

27 August 2024: Our Southland Regional and Civil businesses have helped solve a major problem for Invercargill Airport and surrounding areas. Flooding. In mid-August the new $11M Stead Street pump station in Invercargill, built for Environment Southland, was officially opened by Associate Regional D...

13/11/2024

Rebecca Finlay has been nominated by Anthony Warren, the quarry manager at Portland Cement, for a 2023 Q&M Tomorrow's Leader Award ...

12/11/2024

Brendon Burns visits the country's largest stormwater project and explains one of the project's tunnelling milestones to date ...

12/11/2024

Coyote or tunnel blasting practice was a great way to get a great amount of rock broken for operations in remote areas.

10/11/2024

Tait Hoby and Louise Ford from Atkins Holm Majure provide an overview of the Environment Court’s recent decision on Royal Forest & Bird ...

09/11/2024

In this article, Helen Atkins and Louise Ford of legal firm Atkins Holm Majurey look at a recentcouncil level resource consent decision regarding sand mining at Pakiri, North Auckland. They also provide an overview of the proposed Conservation Management Processes Bill that the Department of Conserv...