An Unusual Contact - Whitford Quarry, Whitford
Author: Steven Price
Presented/Published: NZ Geomechanics News, ISSN 0111-6851, Issue 76, December 2008
Keywords: quarry, greywacke, te kuiti waitemata group, fault, stability assessment
Abstract:
The Whitford Quarry, located some 6km south of the Beachlands settlement in East Auckland, is operated by Fulton Hogan Ltd. Resource primarily in the form of 'greywacke' rock, is actively being extracted from the quarry, crushed and sold as aggregate. The quarry is located in close proximity to a large fault (Waikopua) and has overlying younger sediments that mantle the resource rock.
