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The Stockton mine railway was, in 1908, New Zealand’s first electric railway. It carried coal from the Westport-Stockton Coal Companies mine to the NZR railhead at Ngakawau on the West Coast of the South Island from 1908 to 1953, when it was replaced by an aerial cableway. The line was 10.5 km long, with 2.4 km in two long tunnels.
Stockton is a former settlement in the northwestern South Island of New Zealand in the West Coast region. [1] It is located in the Papahaua Ranges about 30 kilometres linear distance north east from Westport. Stockton is best known for the Stockton Mine operated by Solid Energy. This mine had the first electric railway in New Zealand, from 1908 ...
The Rockies Incline was located about 1.3 kilometres (0.81 miles) south of Granity on the West Coast of the South Island of New Zealand. [1] It ran from the Westport Main Coal Company’s Westport Main Mine on a flat-topped ridge at the western edge of the Millerton-Stockton plateau and descended a steep escarpment to the coastal plain near sea level – with a total fall of about 550 metres ...
The Millerton football (soccer) club, known as the Millerton All Blacks, [3] were twice runners-up in the Chatham Cup, New Zealand's knockout football competition, in 1932 and 1933. [ 4 ] Millerton had its own Lodge of the Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffaloes (Lookout Lodge No 127 of the R.A.O.B. NZ Constitution of the Grand Lodge of England).
The Ngakawau Restoration Project is a proposed hydro scheme planned to divert acid mine drainage from coal mines to an ocean outfall to restore water quality of the Ngākawau River, in the northern section of the West Coast of the South Island of New Zealand. The project is a configuration of the Stockton Plateau Hydro Scheme being developed by ...
New Zealand Coal Production, 1878 - 2014. [10] Coal mining produced almost 4 million tonnes of coal in 2014, of which 44% was exported. [10] In 2016 it was down to 2,834,956 tonnes, [11] very similar to production in 2020. [12] New Zealand coal reserves are in excess of 15 billion tonnes, mainly in Waikato, Taranaki, West Coast, Otago and ...
It was then established as a state owned enterprise called Coal Corporation in 1987 (known as Coalcorp), [2] and renamed Solid Energy New Zealand Limited in 1997. In 2015, it had a turnover of NZ$369.8 million and produced 2.8 million tonnes of coal. [1] The company mined extensively in New Zealand's Waikato and the West Coast regions ...
The mine would be the second largest opencast coal mine in New Zealand after Solid Energy's Stockton Mine on the Stockton Plateau. [3] Environmental groups such as Forest and Bird and the West Coast Environment Network opposed the project. Mining started in late 2014. [4]