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Kōrero: Coal and coal mining

Brunner mine

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Brunner mine

This image from about 1900 shows the Brunner bridge across the Grey River, the railway on the south bank, and the destruction of the West Coast bush caused by the Brunner mining.

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Alexander Turnbull Library

Reference: 1/2-004430; F

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Alan Sherwood rāua ko Jock Phillips, Coal and coal mining – The 19th century, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/7427/brunner-mine (accessed 4 June 2026).

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