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Kōrero: 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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GNS Science

Reference: CN3183/8

by Lloyd Homer

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Alan Sherwood rāua ko Jock Phillips, Coal and coal mining – The late 20th and early 21st centuries, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/7441/maramarua-mine (accessed 4 June 2026).

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