Pike River Coal

Pike River Coal Ltd
NZX: PRC, ASX: PRC
IndustryCoal mining
Headquarters
Level 3, Axon House,
1 Willeston Street, Wellington, New Zealand[1]
Key people
Receivers;
John Fisk, David Bridgman and Malcolm Hollis, PricewaterhouseCoopers[2]


Former management;
Peter W Whittall (CEO)


Directors;
John Dow (Non-Executive Chairman)
Stuart Nattrass (NED)
Arun Jagatramka Director
Raymond F Meyer Director
Roy Antony Radford Director
Dipak Agarwalla Director[3]
Number of employees
180 (as of 22 September 2010)
WebsitePike River Coal Ltd

Pike River Coal Ltd was a mining company listed on the New Zealand and Australian stock exchanges. Its primary operation was the Pike River Mine, the site of a mining disaster with 29 deaths on 19 November 2010.[4]

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.[3] 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.[3] The operation was set up to mine the Brunner seam, a bituminous coal deposit with lower ash and varying sulphur content.

  1. ^ "Pike River Coal Limited Details". Australian Stock Exchange. Retrieved 24 November 2010.
  2. ^ "Receivers appointed to Pike River Coal Limited" (Press release). PricewaterhouseCoopers. 13 December 2010. Retrieved 18 January 2011.
  3. ^ a b c "Pike River Coal Limited Ordinary Shares (PRC)". NZ Stock Exchange. Archived from the original on 15 October 2008. Retrieved 24 November 2010.
  4. ^ Beswick, Angela. "Pike River: Second explosion, no survivors". 3 News. Archived from the original on 11 February 2012. Retrieved 24 November 2010.