by Moya | Feb 19, 2023 | Miner Profile, Uncategorized
Many readers will remember the accident at Scotia Nickel in 1974 near Broad Arrow which ended the life of Russell (Ross) Howell Gallagher, 49 years ago. When I heard about what happened at the Dugald River Mine, Cloncurry in Queensland last week it brought it vividly...
by Moya | Dec 6, 2021 | Uncategorized
Trading One Risk for Another! Consequences of the Unauthenticated Treatment and Prevention of Silicosis in Ontario Miners in the McIntyre Powder Aluminum Inhalation Program. Janice Martell, is the founder of ‘The McIntyre Project’, and someone who I have...
by Moya | Jul 8, 2020 | Miner Profile
Jacqui Graham ins the Great Grand daughter of Richard Dawes and this story is produced with her permission. Jacqui Graham, Memorial Western Collieries Ltd, Western No 1 Mine, 2016, digital image, personal collection. Dark as a dungeon… Richard DAWES was born in the...
by Moya | Jun 5, 2020 | Blogs, Miner Profile
The following is a list of the 22 miners who lost their lives in mining accidents in the Kanowna district and who are buried in the second Kanowna Cemetery. There are other mining death which occurred in this area but they are buried elsewhere. Full details on each...
by Moya | May 28, 2020 | Blogs
Thousands of miners die from mining accidents all over the world each year, especially from underground coal mining, although accidents also occur in hard rock mining. Coal mining is considered much more hazardous than hard rock mining due to flat lying rock strata,...
by Moya | Mar 21, 2020 | Miner Profile
Daily News Perth 18 November 1929, page 6 Prospector – Banker – Sharebroker A Western Australian by birth, Mr. Charles Augustus Saw, president of the Stock Exchange, Perth, was born hi this city in the days when it was still little more than a village....
by Moya | Mar 17, 2020 | Miner Profile
A Lonely Prospector Waiting to Die: One of Australia’s Loneliest Men In constant pain from the stump of an amputated leg an 83 year old bachelor dollies stone at his lonely tin camp in the ghost town of Kanowna while waiting to die. He is Irish-born Joe (Joseph...
by Moya | Feb 24, 2020 | Blogs, Uncategorized
Philip Uphill, d 22 May 1911, Sons of Gwalia GM, Occ:- Surveyor, 34yrs, Cause:- Killed by the skip in the Sons of Gwalia GM getting out of control and running violently to the bottom of the shaft, Verdict of the Coroner. Father:- John Emos ADAMS (Accountant)...
by Moya | Jan 18, 2020 | Miner Profile
In 2013, a lady called Margaret Sanders, contacted me about including her uncle Ralph Douglas Young (Joe), on the Western Australian Virtual Miners Memorial. She has seen our appeal for family members to come forward to provide additional information about miners...
by Moya | Jan 10, 2020 | Blogs
In conjunction with the Collie Coal Miners Union who erected the Collie Coal Miners Memorial we have now added to the WAVMM all of the miners on the memorial. www.wavmm.com The following 55 men now each have a profile page and as much information on each person and...
