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1924 ~ |
Clifton Jetty - demolished |
1925 ~ |
Wongawilli Colliery - additional 40 coke ovens installed |
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Bulli Colliery - delayed when cinder encountered |
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Corrimal Colliery - 1120' x 17' vent shaft (#2) sunk. |
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Metropolitan Colliery - CO2 outburst, 200 tons, kills 2 miners. |
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Mt. Kembla Colliery - replaces furnace with fan. |
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Five Islands Point jetty derelict until 1925 (9m water @ low tide & load coal @ 300t/hr) |
1926 ~ |
Nth Bulli Colliery - closes. (reopened on small scale later) |
1927 ~ |
Nth Bulli Colliery - closes. |
1929 ~ |
South Bulli No 1 Shaft reaches coal. |
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1932 ~ |
Parke’s Tongarra opens. Works for ~ 2 years. |
1933 ~ |
Sth Kembla Colliery (adjoining Wongawilli Colliery to the north, acquired by G & C Hoskins |
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Mt. Pleasant Colliery closes. |
1934 ~ |
Mt. Pleasant Colliery goes into liquidation. |
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Mt. Pleasant Colliery (Nthn side of Mt. Keira) purchased by E. Vickery & Sons 10/9/34 |
1935 ~ |
Mt. Pleasant Colliery taken over by Vickery & Sons (except MP.16) and renamed Keira Pleasant Tunnels |
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Wongawilli Colliery & Pt Kembla Steelworks - purchased by BHP |
1936 ~ |
Old Bulli Colliery - purchased by AIS |
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Mt. Kembla Extended Colliery - closes. |
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Wongawilli Colliery - longest haulage incline in world installed. |
1937 ~ |
Mt. Keira Colliery - purchased by AIS on 26th January (includes Mt. Pleasant Colliery) from Vickery & Sons |
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Mt. Keira Colliery - holes into Mt. Pleasant Colliery (5NE hdg in MP.15) 5th August |
1938 ~ |
Coke works at Wongawilli Colliery closed - reopens in 1941 because of wartime demand |
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Mt. Pleasant Power Station restarted to supply Mt. Keira Colliery |
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Mt. Keira Colliery - Samson Coal Cutter, Blackett Conveyor & 9x Sullivan Coal Cutter introduced |
1939 ~ |
Corrimal Colliery - Jeffrey cutters introduced |
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Wongawilli
Colliery opened in 1915 and was purchased by BHP in 1935
Wongawilli Colliery
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1940 ~ |
Tongarra Colliery - purchased by Excelsior Collieries. (Parkes ) |
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Mt. Keira Colliery - takes electric power from steelworks |
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Metropolitan Colliery - 8BU loaders introduced |
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Mt. Kembla jetty condemned. |
1941 ~ |
Wongawilli Colliery - Coke works reopens |
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Prospecting in #3 seam at Mt. Keira & Mt. Pleasant by BHP for future utilisation |
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Port Kembla No 2 - Colliery opens |
1942 ~ |
Mt. Keira Colliery - operates diesel locos u/g |
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North Bulli Colliery - re-opens |
1943 ~ |
Tongarra Colliery purchased by Excelsior Collieries of Thirroul. (R. Fullager then A. Smith as manager ). |
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Bulli jetty at Sandon point washed away in storm - abandoned (8m water at jetty & loaded @ 120t/hr) |
1944 ~ |
Coal Cliff Colliery taken over by Commonwealth Coal Commissioner |
1945 ~ |
Mt. Kembla Colliery purchased by AIS Ltd. (until 1970) |
1946 ~ |
Nebo Colliery opened by BHP in Wongawilli seam (using track mounted mechanisation) |
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Mt. Keira Colliery - operations started in Wongawilli seam in April (in addition to Bulli seam) |
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Huntly Colliery commences as small, privately owned mine by Waugh Bros. |
1947 ~ |
Wongawilli Colliery - track mounted machine loading introduced |
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