by Moya | Nov 18, 2017 | Blogs
Murchison Times and Day Dawn Gazette, Wednesday 18 March 1896, page 2 TERRIBLE MINING ACCIDENT THREE MEN DROWNED. NEW CHUM FLOODED. MINE MOUNT MAGNET INUNDATED A great shock was given to our community last night when it became known that the New Chum mine was flooded...
by Moya | Nov 10, 2017 | Uncategorized
Six new mining deaths were added to the Western Australian Virtual Miner Memorial today. These names were found in the Dept of Mines Annual Report for 1940. They will not have their names engraved on the Miners Memorial at the WA Museum in Hannan Street as they are...
by Moya | Oct 1, 2017 | Miner Profile
Thanks to one of our volunteers, Danelle Warnock, I am now posting this miner, who although was listed on the WAVMM database, for some reason his name did not transfer to the web site and create a profile for him. Danelle was very kind to share her photographs of...
by Moya | Sep 21, 2017 | Miner Profile
I was recently contact by a lady who had found her Great great Uncle on the Outback Family History website. He is buried in an unmarked grave in the Lawlers Cemetery. He was the victim of a terrible mining accident which she knew about from an article on TROVE:-...
by Moya | Sep 20, 2017 | Miner Profile
Coolgardie Miner Saturday 23 June 1894, page 5 He Threw a Seven. BY SMILER HAYLES He came to this field amongst the first army of gold-seekers who swept inland from the sea coast, intent upon burgling the treasure chests of nature. He was only one of the rough but...
by Moya | Sep 11, 2017 | Uncategorized
It doesn’t happen often, but today I discovered a miner that isn’t included in the Eastern Goldfields Miners Memorial at the WA Museum in Kalgoorlie or in the WAVMM. I came across the details while searching for something else (as I always seem to do). I...
by Moya | Aug 31, 2017 | Uncategorized
While entering details on the death of a miner called James RICHARDS to the WAVMM, I came across a phrase that I have never seen before. The records I was reading from were handwritten at the time of his accident and although handwriting can be tricky I was pretty...
by Moya | Aug 27, 2017 | Uncategorized
Although each and every miner on the memorial is a sad case this story in particular, is very tragic. Alessandro, who was know as Alexander came to Australia from a small town called Pezzolo in Italy with his brothers Giovanni, or Joe, and Pietro, or Peter, looking...
by Moya | Aug 25, 2017 | Uncategorized
This particular miner is special to our family because he is my husbands Great Grandfather. He also has the same name as his own Dad. When my father in law, Bobby Sharp, was alive we would often go to the Boulder Cemetery and ‘Tidy Up’ grandad. Yesterday...
by Moya | Aug 11, 2017 | Blogs
On the 11th August 1916 a man called William James IRWIN was crushed by a fall of rock in the Auroroa GM in the Wiluna District. A coroner’s inquest carried out the next day by the acting Coroner George White was ‘accidental death’. Leonora Miner (WA...
