New Zealand - Coal Mining, Liverpool Mine - Rewanui Coal in NZ - New Zealand has 18 producing coal mines (October 2017) - These are all open cast mining operations, which in 2016 produced 2.9 million tonnes of coal, for domestic use and for export. - Coal is highly variable in quality and in its impurities from one mining operation to another. - An entire industry has grown around the purchase of coal from diverse sources; blending to client specifications; and transport, handling and support to individual users. - Coal is New Zealand's most abundant known energy resource, with an estimated 15 billion tonnes to which there is ready access - 80 per cent of this is brown coal or lignite. Link to lignite article. - Coal has played a key role in the development of modern New Zealand. - Coal's annual economic contribution to the country runs into many billions of dollars, thinking of steel, cement, food, wood and wool products, as examples of goods produced. (Reference; read more at https://www.letstalkaboutcoal.co.nz/coal-in-nz/) --------------------- Image source; File:Coal Mining, Liverpool Mine, Rewanui, New Zealand.jpg Archives New Zealand Reference: R21010303 AAQT 6539 W3537 33 / A1260 https://ndhadeliver.natlib.govt.nz/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps_pid=IE25781294 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Coal_Mining,_Liverpool_Mine,_Rewanui,_New_Zealand.jpg