Hauraki District Council has designated another 26 properties in Waihi for future mining, which will allow OceanaGold to apply to expand its open cast pit. That is short of the 47 properties the ...

This drilling is the first step in assessing the potential of a near-term open pit operation that would provide an incremental approach to move towards a larger operation to mine the existing open ...

Conservationists say a new open pit mine proposed for Waihi and a large expansion of gold mining operations are not a wise choice for New Zealand communities. OceanaGold, which has run Waihi's ...

Ongoing extraction inside the Continental Pit operated by Montana Resources — an open pit mine in Butte, Mont. The company is working with researchers at the nearby closed Berkeley Pit ...