Publications

New Zealand Branch Annual Conference Proceedings

The NZ Branch committee wants to ensure that all NZ Conference Proceedings are available to our members free of charge. For non-members, these proceedings can be obtained at very modest cost from, the AusIMM website.

Proceedings have been produced for the NZ Branch conferences held in 1971, 1973 and from 1976 to 2018. Proceedings are available to download or purchase from AusIMM’s Digital Library. Simply login to your AusIMM account go to the Library page, and enter the search term ‘New Zealand Branch Conference’ which will bring up available NZ Branch Conference Proceedings by year.

Proceedings from 1972, 1974, and 1975 are not available. Should any member have hardcopies of proceedings or papers for these years, please contact the Branch Secretary to arrange access and copying.

AusIMM Monographs on NZ economic geology and mining

Monograph 33: The Geology and Coal Resources of New Zealand Coalfields, by Alan Sherwood

AusIMM published Monograph 33 in June 2019. It is a joint publication of AusIMM and New Zealand Petroleum and Minerals. At 363 pages, it provides a comprehensive and essential update on the past 30 years’ work on New Zealand coal resources and geology. This important publication provides a single introductory reference to the geology, resources and general mining prospects of New Zealand coalfields. It is designed as a high-quality and long-lasting reference book for professionals and companies working in the New Zealand coal sector and geologists with an interest in New Zealand coal deposits.

Topics covered include an overview of the geological history of coal deposition in New Zealand from Late Cretaceous to Pliocene, coal regions and individual coalfields; a coal resource inventory for New Zealand; the history of the coal industry, including the role of government; general coal properties and utilisation; the place of coal in the New Zealand economy and mining prospects in the main coalfields.

Book review:
Published in The AusIMM Bulletin December 2019 issue.

Monograph 25 – Geology and Exploration of New Zealand Mineral Deposits, edited by Anthony B Christie and Robert L Brathwaite

Geology and Exploration of New Zealand Mineral Deposits – Monograph 25 Geology and Exploration of New Zealand Mineral Deposits – Monograph 25 is an important contribution to the exploration of New Zealand’s mineral deposits, and is a successor to the 1989 monograph on Mineral Deposits of New Zealand. The volume contains a comprehensive collection of 47 papers from 70 authors that review selected mineral deposit types or describe individual mineral deposits, plus an introduction that sets the exploration scene in New Zealand. The authors are from the minerals industry, universities, and government research organisations, and summarise a large amount of unpublished exploration information.

Topics covered include the geological setting of mineralisation, epithermal Au-Ag (21 papers), orogenic Au±Sb±W (9), placer Au (4), ironsands (3), placer ilmenite, intrusion-related Au, platinum, clay, zeolite, onshore and offshore volcanic massive sulfides and offshore ferromanganese nodule deposits.

Book review:
Published in The AusIMM Bulletin Nov/Dec 2006 Issue By Franco Pirajno, Geological Survey of Western Australia and Jeffrey W. Hedenquist

Monograph 4 & 13 – Economic Geology of New Zealand and Mineral Deposits of New Zealand

AusIMM Monographs 4 and 13 have been out of print for years but we are planning to make these available via the AusIMM Library along with more recent Monographs on New Zealand economic geology. There may be a modest cost to download the PDF.

Kear, D. (ed.) 1989: Mineral deposits of New Zealand. Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy. Monograph 13. 225 pp.

Williams, G.J. (ed.) 1974: Economic geology of New Zealand. Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy. Monograph 4. 490 pp

A CD containing PDF versions of both publications was produced by the NZ Branch in 2003.

The AusIMM Digital Library

The AusIMM Digital Library allows you to search for AusIMM publications by keyword, author, year of publication and type of publication (Monographs, Conference Proceedings, Spectrum Series and Other).

You can purchase publications online including large numbers of individual papers from AusIMM Conference Proceedings. All individual papers are downloadable at a cost for members and non-members. Student members can access these papers free of charge.

AusIMM Merchandise is no longer available through the online shop.