In the late 19th and early 20th centuries there were small mines all over Southland where local companies mined lignite. PETER OWENS visits one of these old mine sites, Ashers Lignite Pit, which has been transformed into a much-visited gardens and tourist attraction.
LIGNITE IS FOUND all over the southern districts and makes up about 80...
This article first appeared in Q&M's February-March issue.
Bathurst Resources has become the country’s pre-eminent coal producer. By PETER OWENS.
Bathurst fought long, hard and expensively to commission its Escarpment coal project on the West Coast only to be hit by the coal price crash when it finally won the right to proceed....
