Giles Creek mine
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{{#badges: CoalNewZealand|Navbar-NZcoal}}The Giles Creek mine is an open cut sub-bituminous coal mine in the Giles Creek Valley near Reefton on the West Coast of New Zealand's South Island. The mine is owned by Birchfield Coal.[1]
On its website the company states that "Giles Creek coal is utilised extensively and successfully by the industrial, service and primary production sector for the Canterbury and Nelson regions."[2] Elsewhere on its website the company states that the mine "supplies industrial coals to meat and wool processing, horticulture, wood and moss processing, rubber and service industries throughout Canterbury, Nelson and the West Coast."[3]
On its website the company states that "the Giles Creek mine began production in 1984, and has established an infrastructure to extract and process coal at a rate of 500,000 tonnes per annum."[3] The company also states that there are "estimated reserves of 16 million tonnes of recoverable coal in the current permitted area."[4]
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Project Details
Owner: Birchfield Coal
Location: Giles Creek Valley near Reefton on the West Coast of New Zealand's South Island
Coordinates: -42.036799,171.799021
Status: Operating
Production capacity: 500,000 tonnes per annum
Type of coal: sub-bituminous
Employees:
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Sources
- ↑ Ministry of Economic Development, "Operating coal mines", Ministry of Economic Development website, accessed March 2012.
- ↑ Birchfield Coal, "Birchfield Coal", Birchfield Coal website, accessed April 2012.
- ↑ Jump up to: 3.0 3.1 Birchfield Coal, "About", Birchfield Coal website, accessed April 2012.
- ↑ Birchfield Coal, "About our coal", Birchfield Coal website, accessed April 2012.
