The Government isn't going to budge on not digging deeper into the Pike River Mine

A re-entry team reached its targeted point at the roof fall in February about 2.2 kilometres up the access tunnel - after explosions left 29 men dead on the West Coast in 2010.

Some family members have urged the Recovery Agency to go beyond the rockfall.

But Pike River Re-entry Minister Andrew Little says the agency's role hasn't changed.

He says the recovery of mine workings beyond the rock fall isn't within its mandate.