Perth junior Alloy Resources may be sounding like a cracked record about the Barrytown mineral sands project when saying talks on a joint venture or sale of the West Coast mineral sands project were continuing.
International scientists joined GNS Science in remodeling work on the Canterbury earthquakes and aftershocks over the next 12 months.
The mighty ExxonMobil might have had some setbacks with shale oil but its background in New Zealand in methanol to gas conversion is being put to good use on an international scale.
Hamish Bohannan has probably been grating his teeth for some time over the snail-paced process of resource consents appeals for Bathurst Resources’ important Escarpment export coal project.
More may be known tomorrow about the future of the Tiwai Point aluminium smelter when key owner Rio Tinto reports on what analysts see could be an interesting write-down of its Pacific Aluminium assets.
Latest figures from NZ Statistics on labour costs in New Zealand show a modest rise in industry wages and a more modest increase in public sector salaries.
Prime Minister John Key stressed on Waitangi Day that partial sale of State Owned Entities was important both to Maori and to the economy but he will be dealing with some strong views expressed yesterday by the Maori Council.
It’s nice to be neighbourly particularly when you are in a remote exploration area and out to sea. Chatham Rock Phosphate has welcomed Chatham Phosphate as a neighbour seeking marine phosphate on Chatham Rise.
The recently appointed chief executive of PEPANZ has wasted little time getting into the public debate on hydraulic fracturing by taking up the issue in the heartland of NZ’s petroleum industry.
New Zealand Petroleum & Minerals has established an online customer service to allow companies in both the oil and gas and minerals industry to monitor and maintain their tenement data.
Chatham Rock Phosphate believes it will be one of the first companies impacted by the new Exclusive Economic Zone so it has made a submission on the legislation.
The Martha mine within the town of Waihi is having an extension through an eastern layback development and now an evaluation will be made on the potential of mineralisation below the pit floor.
A familiar thread in reports by most of New Zealand’s power utilities has been acknowledging the toughness and competitive nature of the market, and that came through on Friday in TrustPower’s latest report.
Economic Development Minister Steven Joyce has made it clear New Zealanders need to realise the importance of foreign investment and economic growth – making this known in the Bay of Plenty.
While New Zealand Oil & Gas has lifted its international exploration profile it is still gearing up to drill another offshore well in the Taranaki Basin.
NZ methanol production was up in 2011 compared to 2010 and an extra Methanex plant may see these figures multiply.
Simon Hartley looks at the dramatic improvement in the gold price and talks to analysts about what the crystal ball may hold for the balance of 2012.
December proved to be a good quarter for Australian petroleum company Horizon Oil which is deriving a healthy income from the Maari and Manaia fields in the offshore Taranaki.