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Shell tentative on Great South Basin drilling
Shell says the earliest it will consider drilling in the frontier deep water Great South Basin will be the summer of 2014-15.

Solid Energy miners head to Beehive
Miners from the West Coast and Huntly who are set to lose their jobs, will converge on parliament today as the company looks abroad for investors.

Hundreds of mine jobs lost
Solid Energy has proposed to slash 230 jobs at its Spring Creek mine as it can't afford to keep the operation running.

Miners march to Parliament
Miners facing the axe at Solid Energy's Spring Creek and Huntly East operations say a march on Parliament tomorrow is about more than saving their jobs.

Haier makes cash offer for F&P
Haier has offered to buy the 80 per cent of Fisher & Paykel Appliances it doesn't already own for $1.20 a share, valuing the New Zealand company at about $869 million.

Spring Creek march not 'witch hunt'
West Coast miners will march through Greymouth today in a fight to keep the Spring Creek mine open. Organisers hope 500 people will join the march, in what could be the biggest protest on the West Coast since the end of native logging.

Seabed mining: Buried treasure, or fool's gold?
Could seabed mining boost our economy, or are we out of our depth?