Specialist search and mine rescue staff are prepared to enter the Pike River coal mine once the air and gas levels are sufficiently clear to safely do so. Superintendent Gary Knowles, Tasman Police...
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Police, emergency services and Peak River Coal are yet to receive the results from the latest testing of vents at the scene of yesterday's mine explosion at Atarau, between Reefton and Greymouth on...
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The next media conference will be at 2pm at the Greymouth Police Station. Listed below are the corrected contact details for New Zealand Police communications managers involved in the operation. Kaye...
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Specialist gas testing equipment has been flown in from Australia this morning to help with the rescue operation at the Pike River coal mine between Greymouth and Reefton where 29 men remain trapped...
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Media are invited to attend a news conference at 8am today, Saturday 20 November 2010, at the Greymouth Police Station, Guinness Street, Greymouth. This update on the situation following yesterday's...
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A welfare centre has been set up tonight for the families of miners trapped by the underground explosion at the Pike River coal mine 50km north east of Greymouth. Police said the centre, at the Red...
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Rescuers are concerned about air quality at the site of today's Pike River coal mine explosion on the west coast of the South Island. Police said tonight that two miners who walked to the surface...
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Two miners have emerged from the Pike River Mine near Greymouth on New Zealand's West Coast. Police say one of the pair is the loader driver who was discovered by the electrician who entered the mine...
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Two miners have emerged from the Pike River Mine near Greymouth on New Zealand's West Coast. Police say one of the pair is the loader driver who was discovered by the electrician who entered the mine...
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Police and other emergency services are responding to a possible explosion at a West Coast, New Zealand, coal mine. Communications are difficult at the scene which is at the remote Pike River coal...
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