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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 ...
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]
Oceana Gold (New Zealand) Limited: Waihi North Project: Waikato: Mining and Quarrying: The Waihi North project is for the staged expansion of the existing mining operations including a new underground mining operation and new open pit over multiple project sites at Wharekirauponga, Waihi North. Taharoa Ironsands Limited: Pit 1 Mining Project ...
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 ...
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 Cypress Mine is an extension to the open-cast coal mine the Stockton Mine’s operational area, to the east into the Upper Waimangaroa Mining Permit area, on the West Coast of New Zealand. [1] The mine commenced operation in 2014.
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]