Story: Mining and underground resources

More links and websites

• Crown Minerals, Ministry of Economic Development

  This site has separate sections on petroleum, coal, and minerals, and provides a comprehensive overview of mining in New Zealand.

• Doug Hood Mining Ltd

  This company specialises in large-scale mining and excavation. The site has spectacular images of mining machinery in action.

• Industry Training NZ

  The industry training site gives information on training for work in mining and related industries.

• On mining in New Zealand

  This PDF (2.92 MB) reproduces the first review of mining and mineral potential in New Zealand, written by James Hector (director of the New Zealand Geological Survey) in 1869.

• Straterra: Natural Resources of New Zealand

  This site has information on the minerals industry in New Zealand and on mineral deposits.

• Uranium mineralisation in the Hawks Crag Breccia of the lower Buller Gorge region, South Island, New Zealand

  This paper (PDF, 4.8 MB) describes the uranium mineralisation discovered in the lower Buller Gorge in 1955. It was published in the New Zealand Journal of Geology & Geophysics (1958).

More suggestions and sources

• Bolitho, Elaine E. Reefton School of Mines, 1886–1970. Reefton: Friends of Waiuta, 1999.
• Brathwaite, R. L., and F. Pirajno. Metallogenic map of New Zealand. Lower Hutt: Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences, 1993.
• Thompson, B. N., and others. Mineral wealth of New Zealand. Lower Hutt: Institute of Geological & Nuclear Sciences, 1995.
• Williams, G. J. Economic geology of New Zealand. 2nd ed. Monograph series, 4. Parkville: Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, 1974.