

Macraes general manager James Isles stands before OceanaGold’s Coronation North site as machinery works in the distance. PHOTOS: GREGOR RICHARDSON : Views clash about going for gold
Macraes general manager James Isles stands before OceanaGold’s Coronation North site as machinery works in the distance. PHOTOS: GREGOR RICHARDSON : Views clash about going for gold


A gold bar is prepared inside the gold-pouring room at OceanaGold’s Macraes processing plant.
: Views clash about going for gold
A gold bar is prepared inside the gold-pouring room at OceanaGold’s Macraes processing plant.
: Views clash about going for gold


OceanaGold Macraes gold room co-ordinator Rhys Davies lifts a gold bar inside the gold-pouring room at the company’s processing plant.
: Views clash about going for gold
OceanaGold Macraes gold room co-ordinator Rhys Davies lifts a gold bar inside the gold-pouring room at the company’s processing plant.
: Views clash about going for gold


An SH130 Hitachi EX3600 electric shovel, unveiled earlier this year, traverses OceanaGold’s Innes Mills pit at its Macraes gold mine — one of three open pits that would be expanded about 200m each as part of the proposed Macraes Phase Four (MP4)... : Views clash about going for gold
An SH130 Hitachi EX3600 electric shovel, unveiled earlier this year, traverses OceanaGold’s Innes Mills pit at its Macraes gold mine — one of three open pits that would be expanded about 200m each as part of the proposed Macraes Phase Four (MP4)... : Views clash about going for gold


A retired Cat EX110 excavator sits idle at OceanaGold’s Macraes gold mine.
: Views clash about going for gold
A retired Cat EX110 excavator sits idle at OceanaGold’s Macraes gold mine.
: Views clash about going for gold
Views clash about going for gold
A controversial Bill is absolutely not "a war on nature" and would streamline a complicated process, a mining executive says.
