Further Sources

Crown Minerals, Ministry of Economic Development

This site has separate sections on petroleum, coal, and minerals, and provides a comprehensive overview of mining in New Zealand.
Doug Hood Mining Ltd

This company specialises in large-scale mining and excavation. The site has spectacular images of mining machinery in action.
Extractive Minerals Industry Training Organisation (EXITO)

The EXITO site gives information on training for work in mining and related industries.
New Zealand Minerals Industry Association

This site has information on the minerals industry in New Zealand and on mineral deposits.
On mining in New Zealand

This PDF (2.92 MB) reproduces the first review of mining and mineral potential in New Zealand, written by James Hector (director of the New Zealand Geological Survey) in 1869.
Uranium mineralisation in the Hawks Crag Breccia of the lower Buller Gorge region, South Island, New Zealand

This paper (PDF, 4.8 MB) describes the uranium mineralisation discovered in the lower Buller Gorge in 1955. It was published in the New Zealand Journal of Geology & Geophysics (1958).

Bolitho, Elaine E. Reefton School of Mines, 1886–1970. Reefton: Friends of Waiuta, 1999.
Brathwaite, R. L., and F. Pirajno. Metallogenic map of New Zealand. Lower Hutt: Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences, 1993.
Thompson, B. N., and others. Mineral wealth of New Zealand. Lower Hutt: Institute of Geological & Nuclear Sciences, 1995.
Williams, G. J. Economic geology of New Zealand. 2nd ed. Monograph series, 4. Parkville: Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, 1974.