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Category: Mine Museums and Tours

  • COALFIELDS MUSEUM (COLLIE, WESTERN AUSTRALIA)

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    “Coalfields Museum on Throssell Street provides a unique glimpse into Collie”s early days. The museum is housed in the historic buildings of the 1900 and 1930 Road Board offices. The buildings were converted into a museum and opened in 1971. Almost single-handedly coal miner Stan Cull established an attraction which ranks with the best of…

  • WONTHAGGI STATE COAL MINE (SOUTH GIPPSLAND, VICTORIA)

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    “In 1909, a miners” strike starved the Victorian Railways and Melbourne”s coal industry, forcing a hasty development of the Wonthaggi mines as a public enterprise. Expansion of the coalfield followed through the 1910s and 1920s, with the establishment of a powerhouse and workshops complex, a brickworks and nine well equipped mines. The town of Wonthaggi…

  • WHROO HISTORIC RESERVE (RUSHWORTH, VICTORIA)

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    “This reserve encompasses the site of the Whroo township and part of the associated Whroo goldfields. Alluvial gold was found at the present sites of Rushworth and Whroo in August 1853 and the resultant gold-rush brought thousands of hopeful diggers to the area overnight. With the winding down of mining activity in the 1890s the…

  • WALHALLA HISTORIC AREA (WALHALLA, VICTORIA)

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    “Take the historic town walk and learn all about the history of Walhalla, including the Corner Stores Museum, the Old Fire Station spanning the creek, the Mountaineer Brass Band Rotunda, the Mechanics Institute, the Bank Vault, the local Post and Telegraph Office, St Johns Church and the hillside cemetery with its vertical graves.” Click Here…