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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.
The plateau contains rich seams of high-quality coal, which led to the creation and abandonment of the mining towns of Denniston and Millerton, and the current Stockton Mine. Plans to create a new open-cast mine on the southern part of the plateau have become an environmental controversy.
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 ...
In 2017 Bathurst resources formed a joint-venture with Talley's Energy (BT Mining Ltd) to acquire assets of the former state-owned coal miner Solid Energy Ltd. [27] By 2018 Bathurst Resources became New Zealand's largest coal mining company, with mines at Maramarua, Rotowaro, and Stockton added to its portfolio. [18] [28]
The collapse of an 11-story coal mining plant in Martin County left two workers trapped under the rubble as crews worked to free them Wednesday. One of the workers has since been confirmed dead.
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]
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 ...
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