Bathurst's Stockton coal mine accounts for 80 percent of New Zealand's coal exports, headed for steelmaking facilities overseas. File photo: Supplied Minister for Resources Shane Jones wants to double ...

In about 1859, Col. William M. Peyton of Virginia bought a large tract of land where Peytona is now located. Peyton's intent was to open a cannel coal mine and to ship the coal to market via the Coal ...

Ministers should “draw out” lessons from Thatcher-era coal mine closures in the move away from oil and gas, a Conservative shadow minister has suggested. David Simmonds, whose great-grandfather worked ...