Pike River Coal
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| Traded as | NZX: PRC, ASX: PRC |
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| Industry | Coal mining |
| Headquarters | Level 3, Axon House, 1 Willeston Street, Wellington, New Zealand |
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Key people
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Receivers; Directors; John Dow (Non-Executive Chairman) Stuart Nattrass (NED) Arun Jagatramka Director Raymond F Meyer Director Roy Antony Radford Director Dipak Agarwalla Director |
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Number of employees
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180 (as of 22 September 2010) |
| Website | Pike River Coal Ltd |
Receivers;
John Fisk, David Bridgman and Malcolm Hollis, PricewaterhouseCoopers
Former management;
Peter W Whittall (CEO)
Pike River Coal Ltd is a mining company that was listed on the New Zealand and Australian stock exchanges. The company owns the rights to a premium hard coking coal resource in the South Island of New Zealand. Its primary operation was the Pike River Mine, the site of a mining disaster with 29 deaths in November 2010.
The company first listed and began trading on the New Zealand Exchange on 20 July 2007. On 22 November 2010, trading in the company's shares and options was suspended from the New Zealand Exchange at the company's request, pending developments from the mining disaster. On 12 December 2010 the company was placed in receivership.
Pike River Mine is a coal mine located 46 km east of Greymouth in the West Coast Region of New Zealand's South Island. The operation was set up to mine the Brunner seam, a bituminous coal deposit with lower ash and varying sulfur content. The high quality coal with low level of mineral contaminants means it can demand premium prices on world markets. Hard coking coal is the most valuable coal used in the manufacture of steel.
The current CEO of the company, Peter W Whittall, a 29-year veteran miner and mining executive, was appointed in the position 2 October 2010. The Pike River Mine disaster occurred less than two months after Whittall's appointment as CEO. His first AGM in the role took place on 15 November 2010. Whittall worked for about 24 years in Australian mining including underground mining operations in New South Wales, Australia, for BHP Billiton, the world's largest mining company. He holds a Bachelor of Engineering (Mining) and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Wollongong in New South Wales. Whittall joined Pike River Coal in 2005. Prior to his role as CEO, Whittall held the position of General Manager Mines and was responsible for on-site construction, mine development and recruitment at the Pike River operation. Whittall became the company spokesperson during the mining disaster.
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