Story: Iron and steel

Mining ironsands

This video clip shows how ironsands at Waikato North Head are mined by machine. This is the beginning of the process to produce steel at the Glenbrook steel works.

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Fleur Templeton, Iron and steel – The steel industry, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/video/5889/mining-ironsands (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Fleur Templeton, published 2 March 2009.

Comments

ISAAC YUSUF
01 September 2024

I have iron sand here in my place, I do the mining of the iron sand