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Strongman Mine

West Coast Region, New Zealand · built 1939

Strongman Mine
Strongman Mine. Photo via Wikimedia Commons.

The Strongman Mine was an underground coal mine north of Greymouth on the West Coast of New Zealand from 1938 to 2003. On 19 January 1967, a gas explosion in the mine killed 19 miners. In 1994, the original mine was replaced by the Strongman 2 mine further up the Nine Mile valley. The Strongman 2 mine closed in 2003.

Mine data from Wikidata (CC0). Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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