Harliwich mine
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Harliwich Mine was an opencast lignite mine located near Roxburgh in the Central Otago region of South Island, New Zealand, and owned by Harliwich Holdings.[1]
The mine, which was the only coal mine in the Central Otago region, closed in 2018.[2]
Location
The satellite image below shows the exact location of the now-closed mine.
Background
The Harliwich open cut coal mine was located near the town of Roxburgh in Central Otago Region on the South Island of New Zealand. It had operated on its Coal Creek, Roxburgh site since 1906, the single excavation pit now covering about 2 hectares.[2] It is owned by the Harliwich Carrying Company, a family company, formed in 1914.[3]
In 2007, the company began trialing production of humate for use as a soil enhancer by crushing it to super-fine particles in a plant producing up to two tonnes per day. Known as “Harlies Humates,” this product was BioGro certified for organic use.[4]
Closure
On several occasions, the Harliwich mine was accused of ground instability in the local area. In 2013, the Otago Daily Times reported that six houses near the coal mine were moving at a rate of about 15 centimeters a year.[2] Mining operations were even thought to cause sections of the adjacent Coal Creek Road to slump into the mine's pit.[2] Then in late-2017, after finding that the mine appeared to be operating on unapproved areas of land (these boundary changes could have been due to the weak soils the mine itself was causing), the Central Otago District Council ordered mining to stop indefinitely.[2]
Mine Details
- Operator: Harliwich Holdings
- Owner: Harliwich Holdings
- Location: Near Roxburgh, Central Otago, South Island, New Zealand
- Coordinates: -45.477797, 169.307206 (exact)
- Status: Closed (2018)[2]
- Production Capacity: 10,000 tonnes per year[2]
- Total Resource: 248 million tonnes[5]
- Mineable Reserves:
- Coal Type: Lignite[6]
- Mine Type: Opencast
- Start Year: 1906[2]
- Number of Employees:
- Source of Financing:
Articles and Resources
Sources
- ↑ Ministry of Economic Development,"Operating Coal Mines", accessed March 2012
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 Pam Jones, "Harliwich closes Coal Creek mine; three jobs lost", Otago Daily Times, 16 August 2018.
- ↑ "Harliwich", Mininglink.com, Accessed May 2023.
- ↑ Voxy, "Roxburgh family mine goes green", accessed December 2012
- ↑ NZMIA, "Otago coal region", accessed December 2012
- ↑ Ministry of Economic Development, "Energy data file 2011", accessed December 2012
