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The cover picture on an issue of New Zealand Coal in 1982 featured all the paid-up members of the Charming Creek union, then thought to be the world’s smallest union. The mine was still producing coal, but there was a problem finding a market for it.
New Zealand Coal, volume 6, no 23 (1982)
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