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Then Again - Strongman Mine
Television (Excerpts) – 1986
You can never take things lightly underground, not when you're working under the weight of a roof of rock, or with the threat of seeping gas. This lamp is not for seeing nor for sniffing. It's a gas lamp. If the flame goes out it's time to get out.– From the narration
The sense of grief ... it hung around for a long time.– Miner Mick O'Donnell
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Coal Valley
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Epitaph - Fire at the Coal Face
Another West Coast mining disaster
Pictorial Parade No. 195 - After Ninety Years
Mining on the Denniston Plateau in 1967
Weekly Review No. 97 - Coal from Westland
Mining in Rūnanga in the 1940s
Sunday - Daniel Rocks
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Heartland - Reefton
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Cave Creek: The Full Story of a National Tragedy
Another man-made disaster on the West Coast
The Women of Pike River
Another West Coast mining disaster
Decimal Currency Changeover
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Strongman - The Tragedy
Docudrama about the Strongman Mine disaster
Making New Zealand - Mining
Documentary on New Zealand's mining history
Pike River
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