OceanaGold eyes fast-tracked permitting for New Zealand
Waihi North is a proposed underground mining project in New Zealand anchored by the Wharekirauponga development. OceanaGold eyes fast-tracked permitting for New Zealand project under new gov't ...
Inside South Taranaki's controversial ironsand mining project
Despite fierce environmental opposition, ironsand mining off South Taranaki's coast, in New Zealand, is a step closer after the submission of official applications to explore. Dr Nicola Davies finds out more about the potential dangers associated with this type of mining and what it could mean for communities and …
New Zealand to review risk and benefits of …
Seabed mining is allowed in New Zealand but it has to be approved by the Environmental Protection Agency. New Zealand to review risk and benefits of seabed mining - MINING
Mining industry in New Zealand
Gold and silver mining in New Zealand are small segments of the mining industry. The gold production volume of the Macraes Mine, the most productive gold mine in the country, amounted to just ...
Seabed mining
Prospecting and exploration in New Zealand's Exclusive Economic Zone and Continental Shelf is regulated under a number of Acts and regulations: ... These include iron sand and massive sulphide prospecting, as well as incidental discharges from phosphate nodule or placer gold. Discharge of sediment from these activities is a permitted activity ...
Balancing the Ethics of Mining New Zealand
Since New Zealand's gold rush of the 1860s, mining operations have become widespread, throughout New Zealand's North Island especially. ... A similar sentiment was felt following the recent approval for deep-sea iron sands mining by the New Zealand Government. This is the first approval of its kind and will see 50 million tonnes (Mt) of ore ...
History of minerals and coal
Citation: Simon Nathan. 'Mining and underground resources - History of mining', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, updated 13-Jul-12. Minerals mined today. By 1870 an impressive selection of metal ores had been discovered in New Zealand, but only three metals were successfully mined in 2005 – gold, silver and iron.
Mining Methods
In the New Zealand EEZ and Extended Continental Shelf ... a high-grade copper-gold mining project which is located 30 kilometres off the coast, and about 1600 metres deep, in the territorial waters of Papua New Guinea. ... Trans-Tasman Resources Limited applied to mine iron sands in the South Taranaki Bight using a subsea …
Story: Gold and gold mining
Mining today. Gold helped make New Zealand's economy successful because it attracted people, investments and shipping. Because the price of gold was fixed, gold mining …
How maligned Chinese gold miners helped build New Zealand
A group of Chinese miners after church service near Arrowtown, a historic gold mining town in the Otago region of New Zealand. Photo: Museum Queenstown The economics of migration made sense.
KO Gold gains Carrick Goldfield exploration permit in New Zealand
KO Gold has secured a five-year exploration permit (EP) for the historic Carrick Goldfield in the Otago Gold District, New Zealand. Effective 9 May 2024, the exploration permit covers around 105km². Go deeper with GlobalData
Where can I pan for gold in New Zealand? | Dredge NZ
And here at DredgeNZ, we are with you in your quest for gold panning and mining. We offer a variety of reliable tools to make your search faster and easier. Based on our knowledge and experience, here are some of the best spots for gold panning in New Zealand, right amongst active gold mining and gold dredging claims: Otago and …
OceanaGold suspends operations in New Zealand
Macraes is the country's largest active gold-producing mine, having produced 144,487 ounces of gold last year. The company has a production guidance for 2021 between 155,000 and 165,000 ounces ...
Where you find it – Te Ara Encyclopedia of New Zealand
In New Zealand, Otago and West Coast gold is purer (93–98% gold, with 2–7% silver or silver plus mercury), while on the Coromandel Peninsula it occurs as the gold–silver alloy electrum (typically 65% gold and 35% silver in the Martha mine at Waihī) along with separate sulfide minerals.
Iron – an abundant resource – Te Ara Encyclopedia of New Zealand
In 1839 Ernst Dieffenbach, hired by the New Zealand Company to describe New Zealand's natural resources, noted the 'black titanic iron-sand' on beaches along the Taranaki coast. In fact these sands stretch for 480 kilometres, from Kaipara Harbour down to Whanganui. Beach sands containing iron minerals are common around the world.
Mineral resources potential
Lignite is New Zealand's largest fossil fuel energy resource. The main deposits are well known, with technically and economically recoverable quantities in the 10 largest deposits established at over six billion tonnes. There are 22 active coal mines in New Zealand, 17 of which are producing.
History of mining – Te Ara Encyclopedia of New Zealand
Development of a mining industry. Most of the gold won in the 1860s was found in rich, surface gravels, and was worked by individuals or small groups using simple equipment. ... Now New Zealand Steel produces iron and steel for domestic use and for export. Oil and gas – following the discovery of natural gas at Kāpuni in 1959, the offshore ...
Mining the seabed for iron sands in New Zealand
Our main story this month unfolds in New Zealand. First, some context: In August 2017, Trans-Tasman Resources Limited (TTR) was granted consent to mine up to 50 million tonnes of iron sands each year from a 66-square-kilometre area off the South Taranaki Bight in New Zealand.
Gold Deposits of New Zealand
OceanaGold operates the Frasers open pit and underground mines at Macraes, 100 km north of the city of Dunedin. Macraes is New Zealand's largest gold producing area, having produced more than five million ounces of gold since 1990. The mine is located on a plateau at an elevation of …
History of minerals and coal
In 1870 when James Hector, the director of the New Zealand Geological Survey, described the minerals and mining industry in New Zealand, gold, silver, copper, lead and iron had all been discovered, and small-scale …
Introduction to metals in the New Zealand Environment
Gold is the main metallic resource that has been mined in New Zealand for over 150 years. Deposits of other metals do occur, but nearly all these are geological curiosities only and have had no economic significance. New Zealand has had a favourable geological setting for gold deposit formation (a geological "accident").
New Zealand Mines | The Diggings™
Map of 115 mines filtered by commodity, disposition, development status, and record type in New Zealand. Map of 115 mines filtered by commodity, disposition, development status, and record type in New Zealand. ... Taharoa Iron Mine In New Zealand. Location. Iron Commodity. Mine Development Status. ... Martha Hillwaihi Gold Mine Near Thames, …
Trans-Tasman Resources receives approval for seabed mining in New Zealand
Trans-Tasman Resources (TTR) is set to mine iron sands from the seabed of the South Taranaki Bight (STB) in New Zealand, following approval from the Environmental Protection Authority (EPA). The approval was granted by the EPA's decision-making committee (DMC) and will allow the company to recover resources from the …
The Mining Operation
The Mining Operation. The well known black sand beaches sweeping down the west coast of the North Island are the sites of New Zealand's greatest known reserves of ironsand. Its potential for commercial use was …
Industrial Minerals in New Zealand
14 NEW ZEALAND MINING Vl 27J 2000 Tony Christie1, Colin Douch2, Barry Winfield2 and Bruce Thompson1 1 Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences 2 Crown Minerals, Ministry of Economic Development Introduction With a population of 3.8 million, New Zealand has a limited market for industrial minerals.
Iron and steel – Te Ara Encyclopedia of New Zealand
New Zealand's ironsands. New Zealand does not have much iron ore in rocks, but it has plenty of beaches with ironsands, another type of ore. The beaches stretch down the North Island's west coast from Kaipara Harbour to Wanganui. Titanomagnetite. A dark mineral called titanomagnetite is found in the sands. It contains iron-rich titanium.
Mining in New Zealand by National Library of New Zealand …
A DigitalNZ story by: National Library of New Zealand Topics - Follow the history of gold coal and ironsand mining, and finding pounamu, Examine the conservation and environmental issues around mining. Also covered are types of mining, technology, mining dangers wealth, benefits, and disasters. SCIS no. 1865227
KO Gold | Exploring New Zealand for Gold
KO Gold is a Canadian-based exploration company focused on exploring the world-class Otago Gold District on the South Island of New Zealand. KO Gold owns four prospecting and exploration permits in the region, and has an option on the Smylers Gold Project located immediately adjacent to the active Oceana Gold Macraes Gold …
Gold and gold mining – Te Ara Encyclopedia of New Zealand
Mining today. Gold helped make New Zealand's economy successful because it attracted people, investments and shipping. Because the price of gold was fixed, gold mining declined in the mid-20th century, but revived in the 1980s when the price was allowed to float. Today, gold still earns the country millions of dollars each year.
MAORI AND MINING IN NEW ZEALAND AND BEYOND
MAORI AND MINING IN NEW ZEALAND AND BEYOND . Abstract: Before the arrival of Europeans, Maori had known of the existence of gold but did not mine it and had no understanding of its value. Once mining commenced in California in 1849 and Australia in the early 1850s, many Maori participated on several fields, especially in Victoria.