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View images from Sunday 19 December 2010
View images from Sunday 12 December 2010
View image from Tuesday 7 December 2010
View images from Sunday 5 December 2010
View videos from Friday 3 December 2010
View images from Thursday 2 December 2010
View images and video from Wednesday 1 December 2010
 

Sunday 19 December 2010 - Images of Nitrogen Generator arriving at Pike River
nitrogen generator arriving on the back of a truck at Pike River base

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nitrogen generator arriving on the back of a truck at Pike River

Workers preparing to unload the nitrogen generator at Pike River base

The nitrogen generator unloaded from the truck at Pike River base

Workers preparing the nitrogen generator to begin work at Pike River

Sunday 12 December 2010 Images of Pike River ventilation shaft.


Above: Ventilation shaft capped.
 

 

Above: Cap on vent shaft weighed down with sandbags and cement.

Tuesday 7 December 2010 The picture shows the vent shaft this morning.

No flames are visible from the vent and heating is much reduced.

The vent shaft on 7 December. There are no flames visible.
 

Sunday 5 December 2010

An operation has begun to extinguish the fire coming from the vent shaft of the Pike River mine and cool the surrounding concrete pad.

At present temperatures around the shaft make it impossible to approach safely.

The two images below show conditions at the vent today, Sunday 5 December.

Current conditions at the vent and the intensity of the heat.

Current conditions at the vent and the intensity of the heat.
 

Friday 3 December 2010

These five videos show the Gorniczy Agregat Gasniczy (GAG) jet inertisation unit in operation at the Pike River mine today, Friday 3 December.

Note: the videos show steam around the engine, NOT smoke.
 

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

Thursday 2 December 2010

These images all show the Gorniczy Agregat Gasniczy (GAG) jet inertisation unit, in operation at the Pike River mine this morning, Thursday 2 December.

The GAG engine being operated at the Piker River mine site.
The GAG engine being operated at the Piker River mine site.

Steam around the portal into the Pike River mine as the GAG engine is operating.
Steam around the portal into the Pike River mine as the GAG engine is operating.

A view of the GAG engine extending out from the mine portal.
A view of the GAG engine extending out from the mine portal.

Wednesday 1 December 2010

These images and videos were taken on Friday 26 and Sunday 28 November 2010 above Pike River mine. They show the damage caused at the mine after the third and fourth explosions.


Two videos of the fourth blast, Sunday 28 November

 
 

 
 


These four images show the vent area after the explosion on Friday 26 November, and show the vent intact.

The vent area after the third explosion on Friday 26 November

The vent area after the third explosion on Friday 26 November

The vent area after the third explosion on Friday 26 November

The vent area after the third explosion on Friday 26 November

These four images show smoke billowing from the vent shaft vertical column after the fourth explosion on Sunday 28 November.

Smoke billowing from the vent shaft vertical column after the fourth explosion on Sunday 28 November

Smoke billowing from the vent shaft vertical column after the fourth explosion on Sunday 28 November

Smoke billowing from the vent shaft vertical column after the fourth explosion on Sunday 28 November

Smoke billowing from the vent shaft vertical column after the fourth explosion on Sunday 28 November