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BPM Hosts Kids On Nasa Space Science Programme

BPM hosted a morning visit to the Ngakuru zeolite quarry as part of a hands-on, field-based, 5-day Astrobiology field trip for 25 local secondary school students. Designed to enhance the Earth and Space Sciences school curriculum, the children studied NZ’s unique geologic features and associated flora and fauna and explored questions relating to life’s origins and existence in extreme environments, here on Earth and potentially elsewhere. The programme also introduced technology used for spa...

Blue Pacific Minerals Increases Zeolite Exports To Australia

The first few shipments have gone already and the yard is busy with trucking movements and containers as BPM starts a new export contract this month. BPM will now be exporting an extra 40 containers a month from the Port of Tauranga, supplying zeolite throughout Australia. BPM has significantly ramped up its operations and anticipates expanding production to 100,000 tonnes or more of zeolite and 35,000 tonnes of perlite per annum....

StockRock Wins Best In Show At New Zealand Fieldays

WE DID IT!StockRock impressed both the crowds and judges this year at the 2016 National Fieldays in Hamilton over the weekend where we were awarded ‘Best Innovation Showcase Site’ award from a competitive field of over 1000 sites.The theme for the 2016 Fieldays is "Collaborate to Accelerate Innovation", so we are particularly thrilled to have won this prestigious accolade. Recognising innovation in the agricultural sector is at the heart of the event, so to have topped the field in this...

BPM Opens New Facility In Tokoroa

Last Friday we celebrated the opening of our new $11,000,000 processing facility. About 150 invited guests, staff and family were joined by MP's Louise Upston, Simon Bridges and South Waikato Mayor Neil Sinclair to toast the new facilities. Take a look at the write up - and that cake! View the article here....

BPM Help Indian Ocean Scientific Expedition

Blue Pacific Minerals are supplying bulk minerals to be used as drilling fluids on a scientific expedition drilling into the Indian Ocean floor. The goal being to try to get below the Earth's crust for the first time.Scientists from the  IODP - International Ocean Discovery Programme want to sample rock from the planet's mantle - its deep interior. It will probably take several years to drop the full 5 to 5.5km and is scheduled in stages over several expeditions.In the last 6...

AgriSea Team Visits Blue Pacific Minerals

Sales reps from AgriSea New Zealand, one of the country’s leading biological inputs suppliers for farm, lifestyle, horticulture, viticulture and turf spent the morning with us today. The sales reps were touring the BPM plant, production facilities as well as our own zeolite quarry, to gain an understanding of the processes involved in producing our natural zeolite mineral product.Agrisea have recently launched a number of new products which combine BPM’s own brand Optimate, a BioGro certifie...