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The locations of some projects were unspecified, such as the Waikato-based 'Green Steel' project to recycle shredded steel. [4] The list included some projects, such as Trans-Tasman Resources' proposed sea bed mining project, and the Waitaha Hydro Project, that had been previously rejected due to their likely adverse environmental effects. [5]
New Zealand Steel Limited is the owner of the Glenbrook Steel Mill, a steel mill located 40 kilometres south of Auckland, in Glenbrook, New Zealand. The mill was constructed in 1968 and began producing steel products in 1969. Currently, the mill produces 650,000 tonnes of steel a year, which is either used domestically or exported.
The main industrial activity is iron sand mining, run by New Zealand Steel, which began in 1972 was exporting about 1.4 Mt (1,500,000 short tons) a year, mainly to Japan, with small quantities to South Korea and China. [7] A 1993 study put reserves at 205 Mt of high concentrate and 360 Mt of lower grade sand. [8]
Mining in New Zealand began when the Māori quarried rock such as argillite in times prior to European colonisation. [1] Mining by Europeans began in the latter half of the 19th century. New Zealand has abundant resources of coal, silver, iron ore, limestone and gold. It ranked 22 in the world in terms of iron ore production and 29th in gold ...
The Fast-track Approvals legislation would allow applicants to bypass the usual consenting process and gain an exemption or approval from various laws including the Resource Management Act 1991, Conservation Act 1987, Wildlife Act 1953, Reserves Act 1977, Freshwater Fisheries Regulations 1983, Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga Act 2014, Exclusive Economic Zone and Continental Shelf ...
Aerial view of the Glenbrook Steel Mill complex (2008). Glenbrook Power Station is a 112MW co-generation plant located at Glenbrook, south of Auckland, New Zealand.Fully integrated into the New Zealand Steel plant, and enables New Zealand Steel to optimise its energy costs.
It stated it still intended to sell Trident Steel. [12] It completed that sale in October 2022. [13] Aveng Trident Steel at the time supplied a wide range of products to the distribution, mining, construction and automotive industries from its steel processing service centers and warehouses, and its manufacturing and fabrication plants.
Tui mine in 2010. The Tui mine is an abandoned mine on the western slopes of Mount Te Aroha in the Kaimai Range of New Zealand.It was considered to be the most contaminated site in the country, following the cleanup of the former Fruitgrowers Chemical Company site at Māpua, Nelson.