A coal fire has broken out beneath the Denniston Plateau.
Forest and Bird says one or more coal fires have broken out.
It says the Department of Conservation must stop Bathurst Resourcesâ preparatory mining work going on there until the fire or fires are extinguished.
Smoke can be seen rising from several cracks on the plateau, above a historic mine shaft.
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