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Kōrero: Coal and coal mining

Revival of West Coast coal mining

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This television clip (from Close up, January 2005) is about miners from Yorkshire in the north of England coming to work in the coal mines of New Zealand’s West Coast. Their arrival reflected confidence in the future of coal in the area.

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Alan Sherwood rāua ko Jock Phillips, Coal and coal mining – The future of coal, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/video/7471/revival-of-west-coast-coal-mining (accessed 4 June 2026).

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