Story: Coal and coal mining

More links and websites

• Department of Conservation: Mining – coal

  DOC manages a number of historic coal-mining sites around New Zealand. This page provides further information on their history and how to visit them.

• GNS Science: New Zealand's Coal Deposits

  GNS Science, Te Pū Ao, provides scientific information about New Zealand's natural earth systems and processes, such as coal formation and deposits.

• IEA Clean Coal Centre

  The International Energy Agency Clean Coal Centre is the world's foremost provider of information on the sustainable use of coal.

• New Zealand Petroleum and Minerals: Coal

  This site is the main online source of information on New Zealand coal resources.

• Solid Energy: New Zealand coal geology

  Solid Energy is New Zealand’s largest coal producer, and their site has extensive information on its coal mines and products.

• World Coal Association

  This site has extensive information about how coal is used and how clean coal technology can improve the environmental performance of coal use.

More suggestions and sources

• Crawshaw, Norman. The first wave: a history of the early days of coal in Buller. Westport: N. Crawshaw, 1999.
• Macfie, Rebecca. Tragedy at Pike River Mine: how and why 29 men died. Wellington: Awa Press, 2013.
• Ministry of Energy. The coal industry of New Zealand. Wellington: Government Printer, 1974.
• Richardson, Len. Coal, class and community: the united mineworkers of New Zealand, 1880–1960. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 1995.
• Sherwood, A. M. An outline of the geology of New Zealand coalfields. New Zealand Geological Survey Record 7. Wellington: New Zealand Geological Survey, 1986.
• Wood, Brian. Coal Gorge and the Brunner suspension bridge: a heritage and environmental study. Greymouth: B. Wood, 2004.