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The Labour Party-led government permanently sealed Pike River mine last year, preventing the recovery of the bodies of 29 men who perished in the 2010 underground disaster, and locking away vital evidence of what caused the explosions.

Get rid of those things in our classrooms. >> dana: the phrase of the dog that caught the car, what do you do with it next? what are some of the things you want to tackle first and do you think you have some really good backing there in the community? >> we know we have excellent backing here in the community. we had a great campaign team but beyond that we had an army of volunteers knocking on doors, on social media. grassroots fundraising. the first thing we know we need to do is build trust. ...

Monitoring equipment that could have warned of the possibility of an explosion was also not properly maintained, police investigation finds.

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The minister says the plan underestimates the time and costs involved in recovering the mine's main ventilation fan, which would add up to $25m to the project's budget.

SUPPLIED The Pike River Recovery Agency team has to tunnel through a Rocsil plug to get to the top of the drift. A risk assessment team has decided it would be too dangerous to put a camera down the compressed air line at the Pike River mine. The police put cameras down three 300-millimetre pipes in the West Coast mine in January, but were unable to penetrate beyond the roof fall due to the extent of damage to each pipe. A roof fall sits at the top of the 2.3-kilometre drift (or access tunnel...

The agency reached the roof fall, 2.260km up the drift access tunnel, on Tuesday.

The Pike River Recovery Agency reached the roof fall 2.26km up the drift access tunnel. Anna Osborne, whose husband Milton died in the mine disaster, said the end of the drift recovery process had left her with mixed emotions. “I’m incredibly proud that we have got this far and so thankful that the people of New Zealand have backed us getting this done and gathering the evidence that is crucial to getting justice for our boys. “But it’s also hard to know that this is as far as we wi...