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The Stockton mine railway was, in 1908, New Zealand’s first electric railway. It carried coal from the Westport-Stockton Coal Companies mine to the NZR railhead at Ngakawau on the West Coast of the South Island from 1908 to 1953, when it was replaced by an aerial cableway. The line was 10.5 km long, with 2.4 km in two long tunnels.
In 2005, Solid Energy, a state-owned enterprise owned by the New Zealand government, was granted resource consent for the mine after an unsuccessful appeal to the Environment Court. [3] A view of part of Cypress Mine site. The SHVC occupation camp is in the foreground.
Solid surface material kitchen countertop. Solid surface material, also known as solid surface composite, [1] is a man-made material usually composed of a combination of alumina trihydrate (ATH), acrylic, epoxy or polyester resins and pigments. It is most frequently used for seamless countertop installations. A solid surface material was first ...
A stainless steel countertop. A countertop, also counter top, counter, benchtop, worktop (British English) or kitchen bench (Australian or New Zealand English), bunker (Scottish English) is a raised, firm, flat, and horizontal surface.
The Tiwai Point Aluminium Smelter is an aluminium smelter owned by Rio Tinto Group (79.36%) and the Sumitomo Group (20.64%), [1] via a joint venture called New Zealand Aluminium Smelters (NZAS) Limited. [2] The facility, New Zealand's only aluminium smelter, [3] is at Tiwai Point, near Bluff. It imports alumina and processes it into primary ...
Pike River Coal Ltd was a mining company listed on the New Zealand and Australian stock exchanges. Its primary operation was the Pike River Mine, the site of a mining disaster with 29 deaths on 19 November 2010. [4] The company first listed and began trading on the New Zealand Exchange on 20 July 2007.
Huntly railway station, moved to Lake Puketirini in 2008.It is surrounded by a security fence. A 1978 map shows a siding from the Glen Afton branch had been laid. [10] It was on that alignment that, in 2008, the 1939 Huntly railway station was moved, as part of plans to put the Waikato Coalfields Museum beside the lake. [11]
In the third instance, there is volcanism punching through the basement rocks and blanket of sediments to the surface. Upon this solid foundation, and slowly over the billions of years, life made up of a countless generations of interconnected adaptations developed into the unique flora and fauna of Aotearoa/New Zealand.