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Unlocking New Zealand's Petroleum Potential

18 November 2009 - Energy and Resources Minister Gerry Brownlee today announced the Government’s Action Plan for unlocking and maximising New Zealand’s petroleum potential, with a specific focus on exploration of New Zealand’s offshore deepwater basins.

New joint ventures at Rise & Shine and Ophir gold prospects

12 October 2009 - Two Central Otago gold prospects, Rise & Shine and Ophir, containing both hard rock reefs and native gold in gravels are now subject of new joint venture arrangements and exploration.

New joint ventures at Rise & Shine and Ophir gold prospects

12 October 2009 - Two Central Otago gold prospects, Rise & Shine and Ophir, containing both hard rock reefs and native gold in gravels are now subject of new joint venture arrangements and exploration.

OceanaGold extends high grade Panel 2 Deeps zone at Frasers

12 October 2009 - More higher grade gold ore has been located beneath the floor of the Frasers underground mine at Macraes goldfield in the Panel 2 Deeps.

New Stockton mining alliance between Downer and Solid Energy

28 September 2009 - Solid Energy and mining operator Downer EDI Mining NZ have agreed to a joint mining alliance agreement for New Zealand’s largest export coking coal mine at Stockton, near Westport.

Frasers underground gold mine ‘unsung success’

14 September 2009 - The Frasers underground mine at Macraes gold mine in east Otago is an unsung success story in the New Zealand mining scene, two of the people involved with the mine, Cam Wylie and Anthony Jones, told the AusIMM minerals conference in Queenstown.

Aggregates industry developing quarry planning guidelines

14 September 2009 - The aggregate industry is developing national planning for how new and existing quarries are going to be consented in future, the president of the Aggregate and Quarry Association, James Boyce says.

Indications of gold deeper on margins of Waihi gold system

4 September 2009 - Prospective gold targets in the near-mine areas of the Waihi district may be located deeper on the edges of the fossil geothermal system, Newmont Waihi Gold’s project geologist for near mine exploration, Jackie Hobbins says.

NZ gold production highest in past 30 years

10 August 2009 - Gold production in New Zealand hit its highest level in 2008 since modern gold mining recovered three decades ago in the early 1980s.

OceanaGold raises $30m mainly for exploration at NZ mines

10 August 2009 - OceanaGold has successfully raised A$24.2 million (approximately NZ$30.5 million mainly to carry out exploration around its Macraes and Reefton gold mines in New Zealand).

New National Core Store

29 June 2009 - Crown Minerals have now amalgamated the content of all the regional core stores (Paeroa, Dunedin and Christchurch) with the Wellington Petroleum core store into a new national storage facility in Featherston, Wairarapa.

Newmont Waihi begins drilling Goldwyn prospect in Coromandel

26 June 2009 - The first of four diamond drill holes has been drilled by Newmont Waihi Gold at the Goldwyn epithermal gold prospect in the Coromandel about 16 km north of Waihi.

Vancouver-based Kent Exploration joins in Reefton gold exploration

26 June 2009 - Vancouver-based exploration company Kent Exploration has joined with another Canadian company, CanAlaska, to take a major interest in a Reefton gold exploration project.

Grey River gold dredge restarts again on north bank

26 June 2009 - The large Grey River alluvial gold dredge, which was extensively refitted in 2008, is now successfully mining gold on the north bank near the town of Blackball.

L&M starts up Earnscleugh alluvial goldmine in central Otago.

12 June 2009 - Private mining and energy company L&M Group has begun work on its Earnscleugh alluvial gold mine project across the Clutha River from Alexandra in Central Otago.

OceanaGold plans big exploration spend in NZ this year

5 June 2009 -OceanaGold plans to make a major step up in exploration for gold in and around its two New Zealand mines this year.

OceanaGold finds high grade deeps zone beneath Frasers underground

22 May 2009 - A new zone of high grade gold has been discovered immediately underneath the Panel 2 section of OceanaGold Corporation’s Frasers underground mine in the Macraes goldfield in east Otago.

OceanaGold puts Blackwater reef back on exploration agenda

4 May 2009 - Melbourne-based gold miner OceanaGold Corporation has put the historic deep reef Blackwater underground gold mine near Reefton back on its exploration agenda.

New look application forms available

Please note that several new application forms are now available.

Newmont Waihi has one of biggest production years at 144,000 oz

27 March 2009 - Newmont Waihi Gold has recorded one of its best gold production years from its Waihi operation with a total yield of 144,000 oz for the 2008 year, well up on 85,000 oz mined in the previous 2007 year.