Berlins Creek mine

This article is part of a collection on coal projects in New Zealand developed with Coal Action Network Aotearoa (CANA). You can follow CANA on Twitter and Facebook. For information on how to get involved in adding material to Global Energy Monitor Wiki see here.

This article is part of the Global Coal Mine Tracker, a project of Global Energy Monitor.

Download full dataset

Report an error

Sub-articles:

Global coal mines Coal mines in China Coal mines in India Coal mines in the United States Coal mines in Australia Coal mines in Russia Coal mines in Indonesia

Related-articles:

Largest coal mines in the world Coal mine impacts from Covid-19 Environmental issues of coal Coal mining Coal reserves Coal terminals

Berlins Creek mine, also known as Heaphy Mine, is an opencast sub-bituminous coal mine west of Inangahua on the West Coast of the South Island of New Zealand. The mine is owned by Heaphy Mining.

Location

The map below shows the exact location of the mine.

Loading map...

{"type":"SATELLITE","minzoom":false,"maxzoom":false,"types":["ROADMAP","SATELLITE","HYBRID","TERRAIN"],"mappingservice":"googlemaps3","width":"600px","height":"400px","centre":false,"title":"","label":"","icon":"","lines":[],"polygons":[],"circles":[],"rectangles":[],"copycoords":false,"static":false,"visitedicon":"","wmsoverlay":false,"zoom":14,"layers":[],"controls":["pan","zoom","type","scale","streetview","rotate"],"zoomstyle":"DEFAULT","typestyle":"DEFAULT","autoinfowindows":false,"resizable":false,"kmlrezoom":false,"poi":true,"cluster":false,"clustergridsize":60,"clustermaxzoom":20,"clusterzoomonclick":true,"clusteraveragecenter":true,"clusterminsize":2,"imageoverlays":[],"kml":[],"gkml":[],"searchmarkers":"","fullscreen":false,"scrollwheelzoom":false,"locations":[{"text":"","title":"","link":"","lat":-41.879217,"lon":171.84727,"icon":""}]}

Background

Heaphy Mining owns and operates the mine on the Inangahua Coal Field, some or all of the 2.17km² mine is on New Zealand department of conservation land.

Mine Details

• Operator: Heaphy Mining
• Owner: Heaphy Mining
• Location: Buller District, West Coast Region, South Island, New Zealand
• Coordinates: -41.879217,171.847270 (Exact)
• Status: Operating
• Capacity: 0.007696 million tonnes per annum (Mtpa)
• Total Reserves:
• Mineable Reserves: 6 million tonnes
• Coal Type: SUBBITUMINOUS (Thermal)
  Solid fuel calorific value (gross) 24.20 MJ/kg (Range for NZ coal 15.25–31.95 MJ/kg)
• Mine Type: SURFACE
• Start Year: 2017
• Source of Financing: Heaphy Mining

Articles and Resources

Related GEM.wiki Resources

• New Zealand and coal
• New Zealand Mining Industry Association
• Solid Energy