New Australasian Gold Mine disaster
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New Australasian Gold Mine disaster
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The New Australasian No.2 Deep Lead Gold Mine, was a goldmine located in Creswick, Victoria, Australia, that is now infamous for being Australia's worst below-ground gold mining disaster. At 5.30am, Tuesday 12 December 1882, 27 miners became trapped underground by an inrush of flood waters that came from the flooded parallel-sunk No.1 mine shaft. Despite two days of frantic pumping and bailing of the floodwater and with other equipment transported from the monitor ship HMVS Cerberus, the waters
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1882 incident in Creswick, Victoria, Australia
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Australasian_Gold_Mine_disaster
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2023-05-06T23:13:55Z
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