The Prime Minister says new video footage of the inside of the Pike River Mine "doesn't change anything" in terms of the Government's re-entry plans.
New footage taken from a borehole in 2011 appears to show the interior of the mine near the coalface untouched by fire.
The footage shows rubber hoses, wooden pallets and a pair of spectacles un-burnt.
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Pike River families claim this is at odds with advice they'd been given by authorities.
Sonya Rockhouse, whose son Ben died in the explosion, said it shows not everything was totally incinerated, as officials told them.
"We were told it was too dangerous to go in, that it was just rockfalls everywhere, and that there would be nothing left of the men, they would just be dust," she said.
"You'd have to be blind Freddy not to have seen what we have seen."
Rockhouse said the time for talk is over.
"We need to get up that drift. The Government needs to sit down with our experts, listen to what they've got to say, let us go up and investigate and see what else is up there that they haven't told us about."
But Bill English told Mike Hosking this morning there is still no compelling evidence for re-entering the mine's drift, and the Government will proceed with an unmanned investigation of the mine.
"Look it doesn't change anything. I think it's tough for the families to have the issue back through the national media again, but all of these issues have been considered in-depth by the Royal Commission, and that get's overlooked a bit."
"But look, there's still questions families want answered , and that's why we're proceeding with this unmanned investigation of the mine, which will unfold over the next few months."
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