ORGANISATIONS & SOCIETIES

Aggregate & Quarry Association of New Zealand Inc www.aqa.org.nz

Association of Mining and Exploration Companies amec.asn.au

Crown Minerals, Ministry of Economic Development www.crownminerals.govt.nz

Extractive Industries Training Organisation www.exito.org.nz

GNS Science www.gns.cri.nz

Minerals West Coast www.mineralswestcoast.co.nz

New Zealand Branch, Australasian Institute of Mining & Metallurgy www.ausimm.co.nz

The Geological Society of New Zealand www.gsnz.org.nz

The Minerals Council of Australia www.minerals.org.au

The Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy ausimm.com.au

The Society for Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration www.smenet.org

Chamber of Mines of South Africa www.bullion.org.za/welkome.html

The Gold Institute www.goldinstitute.com

Silver Institute www.silverinstitute.org

Platinum Guild www.platinumguild.org

Infomine Portal www.infomine.com

INDUSTRY LINKS

Ceramics and Minerals www.minerals.com.

Oceana Gold (New Zealand) Ltd www.oceanagold.com

Golden Bay Cement Ltd www.goldenbay.co.nz

Heritage Gold (NZ) Ltd www.heritagegold.co.nz

Imerys Tableware New Zealand Ltd Ltd www.imerys-tableware.com

Kenex Knowledge Systems Ltd www.kenex.co.nz

Kingett Mitchell Ltd www.kma.co.nz

Macmahon Holdings Limited www.macmahon.com.au

Holcim(New Zealand) Ltd www.holcim.co.nz

Ministry of Economic Development: Crown Minerals: Minerals
www.med.govt.nz/crown_minerals/minerals/index.asp

Ministry of Economic Development:Crown Minerals: Coal
www.med.govt.nz/crown_minerals/coal/index.asp

Newmont Waihi Gold www.marthamine.co.nz, www.newmont.com www.anotherview.co.nz

Omya New Zealand Ltd www.omya.co.nz

Solid Energy New Zealand Ltd www.coalnz.com

Transform Minerals www.transform-minerals.com

Winstone Aggregates www.winstoneaggregates.co.nz

Glass Earth Ltd www.glassearthlimited.com


Doug Hood Mining www.doughood.co.nz

SCHOOL RESOURCES

LEARNZ virtal field trip experiences
Let LEARNZ take you on a trip around New Zealand to visit coal mines, gold mines, volcanoes, geothermal power stations, marine reserves and more. The site features up to 86 past, current and future trips. It's the next best thing to really being there. www.learnz.org.nz

BLACK SMOKERS
www.science.org.au/nova: Looking for Clues to our Mineral Wealth

COAL
An excellent range of New Zealand-based resources is available on the Solid Energy website http://www.coalnz.com/re-school.htm

Minerals West Coast www.mineralswestcoast.co.nz

For a brief description of coal and links to lots of other sites:
http://www.enviroliteracy.org/article.php/18.html.

Lakeview School students in Gillette Wyoming have produced information about their local coal mine as part of the Powder River Coal Co site:
http://web.ccsd.k12.wy.us/mines/PR/Pr.html

There is some additional useful information about coal for students at:
http://testweb.alberta.com/"coalftp/class.htm

For a range of teacher resources, lesson plans, and activity ideas and a wide range of other useful material see:
http://www.coaleducation.org


EXPLORATION ON PUBLIC LAND
Mineral exploration on public conservation land. See The Guideline and Application Form for Low Impact Prospecting and Exploration on DoC's website http://www.doc.govt.nz/templates/page.aspx?id=43638

GOLD
Martha Mine, Waihi www.marthamine.co.nz features lots of school resources
Minerals West Coast www.mineralswestcoast.co.nz includes information on all types of gold mining including dredging and blacksanding

For information about resources and activities based around the historic Thames goldfields see www.thames-info.co.nz/GoldfieldPromotions/

Locate information on the Hauraki Goldfields on this site

Schools Project, Perth Mint www.perthmint.com/school/index.shtml

University of Otago department of Geology: Gold
www.otago.ac.nz/geology/features/gold/otago.htm
www.otago.ac.nz/geology/features/goldriv/goldriv.htm

Minerals West Coast www.mineralswestcoast.co.nz

METEORITES
www.galisteo.com/scripts/tngscript/default.prl

VOLCANOES
visit over 50 volcano websites from the Volcanoes section on this site