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Whareata Mine (coal mine), Denniston Plateau. The ‘rope road’ (a cutting and rail track with small trucks pulled by a cable) runs up to the left. The prominent structure right of centre houses the ventilation fan. |
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Cascade Mine (coal mine), Denniston Plateau | |
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Denniston, showing tennis courts, swimming pool, miners’ bath house, rope road (cutting from top right to bottom left) and the generator house (covered in rusting corrugated iron). | |
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Rope road (a cutting and rail track on which small wagons are pulled by a cable), Denniston Plateau. The generator shed is in the distance. | |
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Denniston Incline – the cleared route of a rail track on which full coal wagons connected to a cable were braked on the way down, while empty wagons were pulled up by the other end of the cable. View looking down the incline, i.e, the near end of the track is higher than the valley floor at top. | |
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Denniston Incline. View looking up the incline. | |
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Site of brake head and transfer station, Denniston Incline. The incline departs downhill at bottom left. The rope road came in from upper right while an aerial cable way came in from the right. | |
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Collapsed coal mine galleries, Denniston Plateau | |
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A modern open cast mine near Denniston. | |
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Big River, gold mine and former township area, near Reefton. | |
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Big River gold mine. The shaft and poppet head are in left foreground. In the distance, the grassed area is the site of the town. | |
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Poppet head (the wooden tower) and mullock heap, Big River. A vertical shaft lies below the poppet head. Cables went from the winding engine (still intact) in the large reconstructed shed at the foot of the mullock heap. | |
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Cyanide tanks and stamper battery foundation (to the right, between the river and the road), Big River. | |
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The last gold dredge, Ngahere, Grey River, - ceased operation 2004. | |
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.Abandoned chimney near Blackball. | |
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Brunner Mine bridge, Grey River. | |
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Brunner mine entrance and return wheel foundations centre and coking ovens (under roof at right). | |
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Pancake Rocks Punakaiki | |
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Rail bridge near Greymouth. | |