Spurred by an online petition, MPs agreed last month to release cabinet documents related to the tragedy.
Next week, the information tribunal will hear the government's appeal against the Information Commissioner's ruling that it should release Cabinet minutes covering exactly the time that Goldsmith was being leaned on.
The government is appealing against an order to release cabinet discussions from the aftermath of the 1989 Hillsborough stadium disaster.
On Thursday, the National Archives released cabinet documents for 1988-89.
In January, newly released cabinet papers confirmed that, just as Scargill had warned at the time, there was indeed a secret hit list to close 75 collieries with the loss of 75,000 jobs when the strike began.
The reason lies in the past with Margaret Thatcher's instincts laid bare in recently released cabinet office papers, revealing an aim in 1982 "to end the state provision of healthcare, so that medical facilities would be privately owned and run, and those seeking healthcare would be required to pay for it".
The commissioner, Richard Thomas, acting on a request made under the Freedom of Information Act, said his ruling was based on "the gravity and controversial nature" of Britain's decision to go to war and would not, as government officials have argued, set a "dangerous precedent" for releasing cabinet papers that have traditionally remained secret for 30 years.
Newly released cabinet papers from 1984 reveal mineworkers' union leader Arthur Scargill may have been right to claim there was a "secret hit-list" of more than 70 pits marked for closure.
A release of cabinet documents from the National Archives confirms this much but reveals little more about the messy end of a two-year drama that inflamed passions and tested friendships in legal, political and media circles.
He told MPs he had a "bias towards transparency" and there would be a "very, very open approach to the release of cabinet minutes, the Bush-Blair memos, all those sorts of issues previously being disputed and held back by departments", but a very small number of redactions would be made relating to diplomatic relations with other countries on non-Iraq matters.
We went to Orgreave to fight to save our industry from what has since been revealed, following the release of cabinet papers in January 2014, as a government plan to kill off the coal mining industry, close 75 pits at a cost of approximately 75,000 jobs, and destroy the National Union of Mineworkers.
