Balmain Colliery
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Balmain Colliery was a coal mine located in Birchgrove in the inner-west of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. It produced coal from 1897 until 1931 and natural gas until 1945.[1] It remains the deepest coal mine ever to have been sunk in Australia.[2]
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[edit] Location
The colliery was located on the northern side of the Balmain Peninsular, on the corner of Birchgrove Road and Water Street, next to Birchgrove Public School.
[edit] History
The presence of coal was confirmed in 1891 and the two shafts sunk between 1897 and 1902 to mine coal from almost one kilometre below the Harbour floor.
The site is now occupied by the Hopetoun Quays residential complex.
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ Peter Reynolds, Balmain Places 2 - The Coal Mine Under The Harbour , Architectural History Research Unit, University of New South Wales, 1996, ISBN 0-908502-54-0
- ^ Minfact 6 - The real first Harbour tunnel. NSW Department of Primary Industries (July 2003). Retrieved on 2006-12-17.
- Solling, M; Reynolds, P; Leichhardt: On the margins of the city, Allen & Unwin, 1997, ISBN 1-86448-408-X.
- Lawrence, J; Warne, C; A Pictorial History of Balmain to Glebe, Kingsclear Books, 1995, ISBN 0-908272-40-5.
[edit] External links
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- Street map from Street Directory, MSN Maps and Multimap.
- Satellite image from Google Maps, WikiMapia and Terraserver.
