Stokes (left) and Baird (centre) could help save 1800 coal miner jobs in the Hunter Valley.
Baird and Stokes viewing the reduced mine plan while with Anglo American NSW Projects Director Rick Fairhurst at the site of the proposed Drayton South project.
There was a large reception for Stokes and Baird.
Stokes, with Baird pictured behind him, meets with Drayton mine workers.