A new underground mine has been approved for Waihi East in New Zealand, giving miners the go ahead to mine gold and silver beneath local homes.
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Pike River Coal guilty
Pike River Coal company has been found guilty on all nine health and safety charges laid after the 2010 mine disaster which killed 29 workers.
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Former Pike River mine boss cops local hostility
Hostility from Greymouth locals, administrative issues and travel problems are all reasons why Former Pike River Coal boss Peter Whittall wants his trial shifted to Wellington in New Zealand.
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Mining contractor killed on Queensland site
An Incitec Pivot contractor died late yesterday morning while working for the company on site in Queensland’s Mount Isa.
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Dairy protests: Got coal with your milk?
Protesters take on NZ dairy company Fonterra over proposed coal mine.
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New Australian technology ignites lignite coal
Transforming low grade lignite coal into a high energy, low emission product is what Australian company GTL Energy have realised.
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Opencast plans for Pike River mine
Officials are investigating a proposal to turn Pike River mine into an opencast coal pit.
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Plans to re-enter Pike River mine
A panel of mining experts will meet in Christchurch tomorrow to work on a plan to re-enter Pike River coalmine.
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A mother on a mining mission
Mining can be a dangerous business, throughout history there has been too many accidents, lives lost, limbs severed.
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Activists fight to farm food not coal
Sacrificing fertile farmland to mine lignite coal is “100 per cent stupidity”, an Australian farmer turn activist told an anti-coal mining festival in New Zealand.
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NZ activists say ‘keep coal in the hole’
Anti mining activists will come together at the annual ‘Keep Coal in the Hole’ festival which is to be held in New Zealand next weekend.
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Maori tribe want mining exploration halted
Local residents living in and around Northland, New Zealand are protesting against hard rock mining in the area.
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New Zealand mine safety compared to China’s
A leading mine safety consultant has compared New Zealand’s mine safety to China’s in wake of the Pike River tragedy.
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$32m slashed from Stockton mine budget
New Zealand’s largest opencast mine is set to cut $32 million from its budget as it looks for ways to stay viable.
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Pike River mine disaster preventable
The Pike River mine disaster was preventable and caused by the mine being used before it was ready, a Royal Commission has found.
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Pike River report to be released today
New Zealand's prime minister John Key has labelled the report into the Pike River mining tragedy 'sobering'.
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Kiwis Against Seabed Mining to protest TTR’s Taranaki Coast plans
Kiwis Against Seabed Mining is campaigning against planned iron sand mining off New Zealand’s Taranaki Coast.
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Former Pike River boss denies safety charges
Peter Whittall, the former head of Pike River, has today denied charges that the company failed to ensure a safe work place at the mine.
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Two men die in abandoned mine used as meth lab
An abandoned mine in New Zealand has been uncovered as a drug lab, after police responded to calls of an explosion which killed two men at the site.
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Dairy company plans to mine coal
Fonterra, the global dairy company, is planning to develop a major coal mine in New Zealand.
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