A new borehole into the Pike River goaf has been touted by NZ Police as a means for gathering additional evidence into the ill-fated Pike River disaster where 29 miners lost their lives. In a...
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The Pike River Recovery Team will likely reach another milestone before Christmas as the team prepares to tunnel through a Rocsil plug as families grieve the ten year anniversary of the disaster. The...
Food, clothing and shelter may be the basic needs of humankind, but they pale in comparison to our most essential need of all; the need to breathe. Breathing apparatus can be fundamental to survival...
The Pike River Recovery Agency has released a video update about the Agency’s operations with Chief Operating Officer Dinghy Pattinson and Chief Executive Dave Gawn. In the Video, Dinghy...
The Pike River mine re-entry will move to previously unexplored areas of the mine drift this week recovering a loader that was operated by one of the mine’s survivors. Re-entry efforts have...
Fathers of fallen Pike River miners say that they have evidence that some miners may have survived the blast at the Pike River mine in 2010. Bernie Monk and Dean Dunbar, fathers of Pike River Miners...
The Pike River mine re-entry has progressed beyond the 1000 metre mark in its’ journey up the 2.3 km mine drift in its’ search for answers to the explosion that killed 29 miners. In a...
In December 2013 we published a heartbreaking open letter to the Australian Mining Industry from Joanne Ufer. Joanne’s letter came after four miners were killed in less than a fortnight. Joanne...
Many across the international mining industry have been asking what is the status of the Pike River mine re-entry? The current delays regarding the re-entry to the mine have been largely based around...
On Friday 19 November 2010, a methane explosion caused a tragedy at New Zealand’s Pike River Coal Mine resulting in the deaths of 29 workers. Dr Carlos Sorentino examines what role poor corporate...
