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1902 Disasters: Mount Kembla, IBROx Disaster, Fraterville Mine Disaster, Rolling Mill Mine, Yacolt Burn, Hakk?da Mountains Incident

1902 Disasters: Mount Kembla, IBROx Disaster, Fraterville Mine Disaster, Rolling Mill Mine, Yacolt Burn, Hakk?da Mountains Incident


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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Mount Kembla (pronounced ) is a mountain in New South Wales, Australia, as well a suburb of Wollongong, which gets its name from the mountain. Kembla is an Aboriginal word meaning "plenty of game". It is a former coal mining town and the home of the miners killed in the Mount Kembla Mining Disaster. The township contains a local primary school, general store/post office, church and graveyard, several hundred houses and the Mount Kembla Hotel, which was built in the 1887. The only two ways into the village are from Wollongong, up the residential/bushland Cordeaux Road, its name coming from early settlers, and over from Mount Keira down Harry Graham Drive, which was closed due to a rockfall for nearly two years stopping access from the Picton/Mt. Keira Road route. however after extensive roadworks it is currently re-opened. The small village of Kembla Heights is part of the suburb but to the northwest, reached by Harry Graham Drive. The Mount Kembla Colliery was opened in 1883. BHP Billiton is a mining/steel export company which owns substantial property on and around Mount Kembla. It is currently mining at the Dendrobium site, half a kilometre west of the village. Mount Kembla is joined to the west by the Illawarra escarpment and in particular a mass with two lower summits, Kembla West (512 m) and Mount Burelli (531 m). The mountain forms a prominent peak pointing roughly eastwards. The Mount Kembla Mine Disaster was the worst non-natural, non-nautical disaster in Australia's history. It occurred at the Colliery adjacent to the village at 2pm on 31 July 1902. The explosion was caused by the igniting of gas in the mine by the naked flames used as torches by the miners. 96 men and boys were killed in the gas and coal dust explosion. Hundreds of ... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=707064


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  • ISBN-13: 9781157224952
  • Publisher: Books LLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Books LLC
  • Height: 152 mm
  • No of Pages: 30
  • Spine Width: 2 mm
  • Weight: 59 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1157224954
  • Publisher Date: 28 May 2010
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: Mount Kembla, IBROx Disaster, Fraterville Mine Disaster, Rolling Mill Mine, Yacolt Burn, Hakk?da Mountains Incident
  • Width: 229 mm


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