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Pike River miners reach rocs plu

New borehole to Pike River goaf

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...

Pike river mine training rocs plu

Pike River recovery on track

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...

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Breathing apparatus in mining | Don’t hold your breath

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...

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Pike River mine latest news

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...

Pike river mine remembrance

Miners may have survived the first blast at Pike River

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...

Pike River Recovery Agency Whati sthe staus of the Pike River Re-entry

What is the status of the Pike River mine re-entry?

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...

Taking care of business tragedy at Pike River

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...