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Story: 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

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

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