Greetings to you all. Today, 19 November the families have visited the Pike River memorial to pay tribute to their lost husbands, fathers and sons. Zen Wodin … Malcolm Campbell, 25, Scotland. Photograph: Phil Walter/Getty Images. About half a kilometer south of the Pike River bridge on the west side of Route 133. PHOTO: HELEN MURDOCH Most charges were dropped and the mine was to be sealed — until Anna Osborne stepped up and occupied the mine road, preventing Solid Energy contractors from completing the 30m-long … Photos of the 29 miners on a display at the public memorial outside the Pike River Mine. It came with a powerful blast of pressure and a flash of white light … Exactly 10 years ago, on November 19, 2010, the women were told an explosion had ripped through the mine where Milt and Ben were working and from which they would not return home. The Pike River memorial garden at Atarau, on the West Coast. A permanent memorial, listing the names of the men killed, has been erected near the junction of Atarau Road and the road up to the mine and a memorial stone was … 29 of those men never came home. The loader being driven by survivor Russell Smith when the Pike River Mine exploded in 2010 was recovered from 1581m up the drift on Tuesday 4 August 2020. About half a kilometer south of the Pike River bridge on the west side of Route 133. The Pike River recovery Agency is confident the re-entry of the mine will be completed by June, given there is no unexpected delays. It’s now 10 years since the disaster and there are many widows, and 21 children without fathers. There is nothing relative about grief, sudden loss is devastating. First anniversary The names of the 29 men, etched on the plaque at the Pike River memorial gardens at Atarau. This memorial website was created in the memory of the 29 miners who tragically died in the Pike River mine accident in New Zealand, on November 24, 2010: Conrad John Adams, 43, New Zealand. The men who died at Pike River Mine are remembered at a memorial garden near Atarau, 12 kilometres from the mine's portal. 10 years ago today 31 men went to work at the Pike River Mine. Allan John Dixon, 59, New Zealand. Greetings especially to those who are on the Coast at the portal at Pike River, to you, your loved ones, your family and your friends. Pike River remembered. It will include a 9 km side track to the Pike River Mine, where there will be an information centre at the amenities area and a discreet memorial at the mine portal. 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