On your way to the well known Denniston historic coal mining site you will find towns with a coal mining legacy that are now largely forgotten. Granity, Ngakawau still a coal depot for the Stockton mine, Hector, Wainangaroa and Millerton, As part of the Denniston narrative Stockton Coal Mine is currently operating and, as part of the story of West Coast coal mining is worth a detour.
\nFollow in the footsteps of prospectors, a heritage gold and coal mining trail. Today you will be on the trail of a nineteenth century gold miner. You will be travelling north viewing Denniston Plateau to your right as you travel between the mountains and sea delving into the past in Hector, Granity foreshore and Granity Museum, Ngakawau, Millerton, and Stockton. Hector is the home to the Country Music Museum. Visit Granity and witness the action of climate change on a small settlement.
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The terminus for the Stockton aerial ropeway which transports the coal in buckets from the current operational mine on the Stockton plateau to be loaded onto rail for export through the Port of Westport and the Port of Lyttelton on the east coast. Ngakawau is located on the southern side of the Ngakawau River which flows out to sea at Hector.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":1378,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,31,17],"tags":[],"filter_destinations":[180,91,134],"filter_categories":[81,183,53],"filter_topic":[169],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n