by Moya | Jan 23, 2019 | Miner Profile
Story by :- David McMillan Truth can be stranger than fiction, can’t it? Frank Day’s life is stranger than most and shouldn’t be forgotten. Blackboy Hill was the Western Australian training camp established in 1914 to house local Australian Imperial Force (AIF)...
by Moya | Jan 12, 2019 | Miner Profile
by David McMillan The remarkable life of Donald McLeod, a war hero, ended tragically at the bottom of a Pilbara mine shaft in December 1928. Born in Dornoch, Scotland in 1887, he migrated to WA and worked as a miner in the State’s far north. With the outbreak of World...
by Moya | Jan 5, 2019 | Blogs
Tragedy at the Iron Duke An unusual accident occurred in the Gold Mines of Kalgoorlie’s Iron Duke Mine in March 1936 — not only due to its unusual nature but also that it involved two women. Two men and two women were admitted to the St John of God hospital,...
by Moya | Dec 17, 2018 | Blogs
By David McMillan The “first great mining disaster”, as it was labelled by the Coolgardie Mining Review, occurred on 31 March 1897 but its significance wasn’t apparent until the next day and no deaths actually occurred on that date. On Wednesday night, five miners...
by Moya | Jun 13, 2018 | Blogs
On the 13th June 1989, six men died in what was the worst mine disaster in living memory in Western Australia. Not since the Great Boulder Disaster in 1904, 114 years ago, when 5 men lost their lives in one accident has there been such a tragedy. It happened at the...
by Moya | May 5, 2018 | Blogs, Uncategorized
A family who lived in Victoria, and who never travelled to Western Australia, lost two sons both the same age to the WA Goldfields. Their father pre-deceased them by three weeks in 1902. So their mother would be devastated to lose her family in so short a time. Albert...
by Moya | Apr 28, 2018 | Miner Profile
Kalgoorlie Miner (WA : 1895 – 1950), Tuesday 30 April 1907, page 5 FATALITY AT GWALIA. – A CARPENTER KILLED. Leonora, April 29. He left his home in perfect health Never thinking death was near Not dreaming that he never would Return to his wife and...
by Moya | Apr 3, 2018 | Miner Profile
Australasian (Melbourne, Vic. : 1864 – 1946), Saturday 6 April 1907, page 39 MINING FATALITY. A shocking mining accident, resulting in the death of three men— Owen Owens, Peter Andreoli, and Vincent Cattaneo occurred at the Northern Company’s Waroonga...
by Moya | Mar 31, 2018 | Uncategorized
Geraldton Guardian (WA : 1906 – 1928), Tuesday 23 May 1911, page 3 An awful accident occurred at the Sons of Gwalia mine, when two men were killed and eight others seriously injured. Whilst the 8 o’clock shift were getting on, ten men got into a skip at...
by Moya | Mar 14, 2018 | Uncategorized
The following miner was to loos his life at the age of 71 after having a very full life. He was one time Mayor of Coolgardie, was married twice and had nine children. He was involved in several business ventures but the lure of gold always brought him back to the...
