The Government isn't going to budge on not digging deeper into the Pike River Mine
The Government isn't going to budge on not digging deeper into the Pike River Mine
26 March 2021
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.
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