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US envoy says Cook Islands minerals are a top priority
The new U.S. ambassador to New Zealand and several Pacific island nations said on Friday that securing Cook Islands seabed…
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‘Pure’ New Zealand chases gold as record prices burnish allure
New Zealand is fast-tracking gold projects and courting mining investors as soaring bullion prices revive a sector long in decline,…
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Rio Tinto female recruitment drives attract more than 3,000 applicants
The Transferrable Pathways campaign by Rio Tinto seeks to recruit women across Australia and New Zealand to the mining industry.…
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TBM launched at New Zealand’s largest infrastructure project
The tunnel boring machine (TBM) that will excavate a 1.6 km tunnel as part of the largest infrastructure project in…
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Crews re-enter New Zealand’s Pike River Mine nine years after explosion
Nearly nine years after an explosion in New Zealand’s Pike River Mine killed 29 mine, recovery crews entered the mine…
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Seabed mining project approved by New Zealand’s EPA
New Zealand’s Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) approved Trans-Tasman Resources’ application to mine 50 Mt/a (55 million stpy) of iron sand…
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New Zealand commits $3.7 million to study impacts of deep-sea mining
New Zealand’s National Institute of Water and Atmosphere (NIWA) will launch at $3.7 million study to assess the potential impacts…
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OceanaGold agrees to buy Newmont’s New Zealand gold mine
Newmont Mining Corp. announced it has entered into a deal to sell a New Zealand gold mine to OceanaGold. The…
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Oceanagold turns focus away from New Zealand mines
Oceanagold will turn its focus to lower cost operations in the Philippines while winding down its New Zealand operations, Mining.com…
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Owners of New Zealand mine will not enter mine to recover remains of buried miners
The owners of the Pike River Mine in New Zealand said they will not re-enter the mine the retrieve the…
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