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Story: Coal and coal mining

Maramarua mine

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Maramarua mine

This is the Kōpako sub-bituminous mine at Maramarua, 70 kilometres south of Auckland. In the 2000s most coal mining was opencast and large-scale.

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Alan Sherwood and Jock Phillips, Coal and coal mining – The late 20th and early 21st centuries, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/7441/maramarua-mine (accessed 10 June 2026).

Story by Alan Sherwood and Jock Phillips, published 2 March 2009.