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Category: Timeline

1950

1950 Mt. Keira Colliery - operations abandoned in Wongawilli seam on Sept. 6th.due to excessive water & bad roof.

1950 Mt. Pleasant Colliery - #3 seam production commences on 16th Dec. to make up for loss of #3 seam at Kemira Clly

1950 Sth Clifton Colliery - taken over by Joint Coal Board

1951 Huntly Colliery - purchased by Joint Coal Board

1951 Coal Cliff Colliery - Samson Cutters & Goodman duck-bill Loaders introduced

1952 Nebo Colliery - replaces track mounted with trackless mechanisation

1952 Huntley Colliery - Continuous Miners introduced. Joy CM cuts and loads 32 tons Tongarra sm. coal (15/7/52)

1952 Wongawilli Colliery - Continuous Miners introduced

1952 Huntly Colliery - production ceases. New Huntley Colliery (on same site) expands.

1953 Last shipment of coal from Bellambi Jetty

1954 Kembla - Keira Tunnel - completed

1954 Huntley Colliery - control taken by Electricity Commission

1954 Sth Bulli Colliery - scraper loaders replaced with Jeffrey equipment

1954 Coalcliff Colliery - Duck-bill loaders withdrawn

1954 Coalcliff Colliery - purchased by Kembla Coal & Coke

1954 Metropolitan Colliery - 3600' drift replaces downcast winder

1954 Sth Clifton Colliery - purchased by S & M Fox

1954 Sth Clifton Colliery - conveyor belts replace endless rope

1954 Bellambi jetty abandoned

1955 Corrimal Colliery - old incline replaced by new incline direct to colliery

1955 Sth Clifton Colliery - Continuous Miners introduced

1955 Old Bulli Colliery - Continuous Miners introduced

1955 Nebo Colliery - Continuous miners introduced

1955 Mt. Keira Colliery changes official name Osborne-Wallsend to Kemira Colliery (7th.Feb)

1955 Kemira Colliery - Continuous Miners introduced (Joy 1CM3s)

1955 Bellambi jetty washed away

1955 Mt. Pleasant Colliery - operations cease 30th. Sept. ( equipment returned to Kemira Clly)

1957 Darkes Forest Ventilation Shaft commissioned

1957 Nebo Colliery - Shuttle cars introduced

1958 Wongawilli Colliery - Bulli seam found to exist in locally thickened area

1958 Kemira Colliery - Roof Bolters introduced in January (Fletcher)

1958 Kemira Colliery - Shuttle Cars introduced in September (Joy 10SCs)

1958 Tongarra Colliery - Coal to Tallawarra PS. (prod. 1945 - 26,000; 1951 - 40,000; 1958 - 70,000)

1959 Wongawilli Colliery - Incline replaced by Decline conveyor

1959 Coal Cliff Colliery - contract mining ceases

1960

1960 Pt. Kembla No.2 Colliery - belt fire kills one workman

1960 Pt. Kembla No.2 Colliery (5.6 kms from Unanderra), closes

1960 Kemira Colliery - Pick-up Loaders introduced (Joy 11Bu & 14BUs)

1961 Bellambi Colliery - modernisation included 2 large buildings ($400,000). Also washery built.

1961 Wongawilli Colliery - Bulli seam production commences

1961 Excelsior Colliery closes

1962 Appin Colliery commenced

1962 Excelsior No.2 Colliery closes

1963 Huntley Colliery - Central Haulage System links Wongawilli & Tongarra seams

1963 Coal Cliff Colliery - Longwall equipment installed

1964 Corrimal Colliery - taken over by AIS in March.

1964 Pt. Kembla No. 2 Colliery purchased by AIS & becomes part of Nebo Colliery

1964 Pt. Kembla No.2 Colliery - closes

1964 Coal Loader at Pt. Kembla commissioned

1964 Bulli Colliery - 300m vent shaft drilled. (currently 400 employees, working 3 shifts)

1964 Bulli Colliery - small explosion by oxy - acetylene torch burns one miner.

1965 Corrimal Colliery & Kemira Colliery connected by barrier bin. Corrimal incline closed.

1965 Coal Cliff Colliery - Longwall equipment withdrawn (unsuccessful)

1965 Metropolitan Colliery - purchased by AIS

1965 Kemira Colliery - May/June first successful installation of fully mechanised retreating longwall

1965 Sth Bulli Colliery - Longwall unit installed

1965 Bulli Colliery - Nov. 9th, fire u/g, 4 died.

1966 O'Brien's Drift - coal haulage commenced on 9/5/66

1966 Huntley Colliery - first export order using temporary washery

1966 Bulli Main Colliery - continues production.

1966 Metropolitan Colliery - mechanisation completed

1967 Corrimal Colliery - August, commenced hauling coal via Kemira Colliery

1968 Mt. Kembla Colliery - Front end loaders introduced - not successful

1968 Huntley Colliery - Main washery installed

1968 Dombarton Colliery - commences, (equipment transferred to Yellow Rock Colliery, 1971)

1969 Appin Colliery - first longwall installed

1970

1970  Yellow Rock Colliery - opens

1970 Mt. Kembla Colliery - closes 18th Sept.

1970 Sth Bulli Colliery - two additional longwall units installed

1970 Corrimal Colliery - No 3 Shaft commissioned (all coal output from here)

1971 Corrimal Colliery - experimental shortwall installed

1971 Darkes Forest Colliery - commences

1971 Dombarton Colliery closes

1972 Sth Clifton Colliery - closed by Clutha

1972 Nth Bulli Colliery - closed by Clutha

1972 Kemira Colliery - longwall mining ceases

1972 Westcliff Colliery - shaft sinking commences

1973 Sth Clifton Colliery - purchased by ?- re-opened

1973 Nth Bulli Colliery - purchased by ? -re-opened for short time

1975 Corrimal Colliery - August, Haulage Shaft completed, ceased hauling coal via Kemira Colliery.

1976 Westcliff Colliery - commences

1977 Wongawilli Colliery - Bulli seam production ceases.

1977 Kemira Colliery - connection from Wongawilli seam to Kemira Tunnel

1978  Tower Colliery commences

1979  Cordeaux Colliery commences

1979 Appin Colliery - 14 men killed in fire

1980

1980 Cordeaux Colliery - officially opened

1980 Westcliff Colliery - Methane Drainage commences

1980 Tower Colliery - commences production

1981 Appin Colliery - Methane Drainage commences

1982 Westcliff Colliery - Longwall mining commences

1982 Westcliff Colliery - pilot 1.2 MW turbine installed in Methane Plant

1982 Brimstone #2 Colliery - closes 21/5/82

1982 Valley #1 Colliery - No. 2 Entry - closes 21/5/82

1983 Avondale Colliery - closes 17/1/83

1983 Sth Clifton Colliery - closes 16/9/83

1983 Valley #3 Colliery - closes 13/12/83

1984 Sth Bulli Colliery - retrenches labour

1984 Westcliff Colliery - 15 MW Power Plant installed in Methane Drainage Plant

1985 Corrimal Colliery - closes 7/12/85

1986 Cordeaux Colliery merges with Corrimal Colliery

1987 Bulli Colliery - closes 15/5/87

1987 Avon Colliery - closes 26/6/87

1987 Yellow Rock Colliery - closes 26/6/87

1988 Kemira Colliery - longwall reintroduced.

1988 Tower Colliery - longwall commences.

1989 Metropolitan Colliery - Denehurst purchases from Savage Resources

1989 Tower Colliery - methane drainage commences.

1989 Huntley Colliery closes

1990

1991 Kemira Colliery - Fri. Sept.27th mining ceases.

1991 Wongawilli Colliery - mining in Bulli seam for Elouera roadways

1991 Cordeaux Colliery - produces largest amount of coal in any u/g coal mine in Australia.

1992 Appin Colliery - on site coal preparation plant starts.

1993 Elouera Colliery - established from consolidation of Wongawilli, Nebo & Kemira Collieries.

1993 Cordeaux Colliery - first of any u/g coal mine in Australia to receive accreditation AS3902

1995 Metropolitan Colliery - Denehurst acquires 90% interest.

Last Updated: 10 July 2017
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