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Maramarua mine

Maramarua mine

Maramarua mine

This is the Kōpako sub-bituminous mine at Maramarua in northern Waikato, some 70 kilometres south of Auckland. In the 2000s most of the mining was opencast, and the scale of the operations was generally large.

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GNS Science
Reference: CN3183/8
Photograph by Lloyd Homer

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