Coal

Sites

Australian Coal Association

Offers information on coal uses, clean coal technologies, and the environmental effects of coal use.

Coal Facts and Figures

Coal an overview

From Crown Minerals

Coal and coal mining

An overview from Te Ara – The Encyclopedia of New Zealand

Coal Research Brochure

from Solid Energy (NZ)

Coal the Worlds Leading Energy Source

from Solid Energy (NZ)

Facts About Coal

Statistics on coal production, consumption, trade and transport, pricing, employment and other industry information. From the American National Mining Association.

Minerals Programme for Coal

Describes the policies, procedures and provisions involved in the allocation and management of Crown owned coal.

New Zealand Coal industry

An overview of the Coal industry in New Zealand. Includes statistics and publications. From Crown Minerals.

New Zealand coal resources survey

New Zealand’s coal resources are generally well explored. A major Government-funded coal exploration programme, known as the New Zealand coal resources survey (NZCRS) [409 kB PDF], explored almost all of New Zealand’s realistic coal prospects between 1975 and 1989. From Crown Minerals

Solid Energy

New Zealand's leading producer and distributor of high quality coal for export and for New Zealand markets, operates underground and opencast mines on the West Coast, in Southland and the Waikato, at Huntly.

What is Coal Fact Sheet

from Solid Energy (NZ)