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Bruce's Tunnel

Category: Minebase A - C
Active Dates: 1943-1944
Rev: 0.0

HIGHLIGHTS

Opened: as Wongawilli

Location: (Portion 193, Camden, Kembla)

Owner:   AI&S

Seam: - #3 Seam (Wongawilli seam)

RT: 94

Manager:

Closed: 1944

Abandoned: 1944


TIMELINE

1909
– A Sydney brick making company purchased the property of Mr. Bruce and that the Metropolitan Brick Company had advanced a tunnel some 200 feet (61 metres), the seam height being 7 ft. 10 in. (2.39m). (Cairns. R. A. “A History of the Prospecting and Development of Coal Mining in the Illawarra and Shoalhaven. Part 1”2010)

1943 – Opened by AI&S to obtain a 300 ton bulk sample from the Wongawilli seam. (Andrews, 2011).

1948 – Reported as being the centre of a structural “high” in a review by Prof. E. A. Rudd.

Bruces Tunnel as part of Nebo Collierys RT

Bruce’s Tunnel – as part of Nebo Colliery’s RT.

Last Updated: 24 August 2017
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