How to notify us over the holiday period.
Notifications  
If someone has been seriously injured, become seriously ill, or died as a result of work – phone us on 0800 030 040 straight away. We have staff available to respond to these 24/7.
If you’re not sure what a notifiable event is, including your obligation to hold a scene, visit What events need to be notified?
Notifications made through our online form won't be monitored between 12pm on Tuesday 24 December 2024 and 8.30am on Monday 6 January 2025.
If you’re not sure if you need to notify us, use our online notification system and we’ll respond to you after 6 January 2025.
Health and safety concerns
If you have a health and safety concern that isn’t urgent, use our online form and we’ll respond to you after 6 January 2025.
Raise a health or safety concern
General enquiries
General enquiries made by phone or email after 12pm on Tuesday 24 December will be responded to from Monday 6 January 2025. This does not apply to notifications made by phone on 0800 030 040.
We wish you a safe and relaxing holiday.
NZ Mine Plans is a purpose-built database with an interactive GIS webmap. It provides free access to a catalogue of plans for recent and historic mines in New Zealand.
We have joined with New Zealand Petroleum & Minerals (part of MBIE) and established NZ Mine Plans – a searchable database designed to make plans for recent and historic New Zealand mines more accessible to the public.
Go to NZ Mine Plans(external link)
NZ Mine Plans:
- Aids regulatory oversight of mining activities in New Zealand to ensure the Health and Safety of our mining industry
- Supports industry operators to ensure mine planning is informed and safe
- Delivers increased knowledge of our mineral and energy resources
The database contains a catalogue of mine plans from recent and historic mining operations that is regularly updated. Digital plans of recent mines have been collected and published under the Crown Minerals Act 1991 in a range of file formats, including PDF, JPG, TIFF, GIS Data, and various 3D Model Objects.
From January 2017 mine plans were required to comply with the Guide to Completing and Submitting Plans for Mines and Tunnels, developed in conjunction with NZ Mine Plans.
The information in this guide about the Health and Safety at Work (Mining Operations and Quarrying Operations) Regulations 2016 is no longer up to date.
This guide will be updated at a later date to reflect the changes to these Regulations. In the meantime please refer to the latest version of the Regulations:
Historic mine plans have been catalogued from museums and private collections around New Zealand. High-resolution scans in TIFF format are available for rare or significant plans.
When first downloading a mine plan, users are prompted to enter their email address, and follow a quick verification step. Where historic mine plans in the catalogue do not have an associated digital plan file, users can arrange to access the physical plan by contacting the relevant collection.
The NZ Mine Plans GIS webmap uses New Zealand Transverse Mercator 2000 projection.
Please see our User Guide below for more details on how to:
- Search for, preview and download mine plans
- Access physical mine plans from the original collection where a digital plan file is not available
- Request technical support with using NZ Mine Plans
- Provide feedback on NZ Mine Plans
If you have a personal collection of mine plans and you’re interested in donating them to this database, we’d love to hear from you.
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