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Kōrero: Coal and coal mining

Waikato miners

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Waikato miners

This group of miners worked together in the mid-1980s at the Huntly West mine in Waikato. They were known as the ‘Rotowaro shift’ because they all lived in the settlement of Rotowaro before it was abandoned to allow for opencast mining.

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Waikato Museum - Te Whare Taonga o Waikato

by David Cook

Permission of Waikato Museum – Te Whare Taonga o Waikato must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Alan Sherwood rāua ko Jock Phillips, Coal and coal mining – Coal resources, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/7419/waikato-miners (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Alan Sherwood rāua ko Jock Phillips, i tāngia i te 2 March 2009.