Drilling into the Convict Coal Mines of Newcastle Australia

On the 26th September 2005 the Coal River Working Party drilled into the early convict coal mines of Newcastle Australia. This is the birthplace of the Australian Coal Mining Industry. Video by Bob Cook. For more info:
http://www.newcastle.edu.au/coalriver
Blog: http://coalriver.wordpress.com/

Category:

Travel & Events

Tags:

• mining
• history
• australian
• coal
• industry
• birthplace
• newcastle
• australia
• nobbys
• fort
• scratchley
• colliers
• point

[BathingFrankyTv]

Go Newcastle ;)

Peace

[spunkyarse]

That is soooooooo cool, I'm from Newcastle and I love our history. Thanx for showing this.

[nmlc525]

I`ve drilled into a 120year old mine tunnel in rankin park. Under someones house causing subsidence. Lowered a camera down and saw a cavity 10m below surface...f`ing cool

[bean645]

@chrisheffron they didnt do it for they coal. they were searching for historic mines

[gmspeedfreak]

scince the steel smelters have been shut down its seen the price of refined steel go up significantly, a bloody pain in the ass

[gmspeedfreak]

here comes some coal, fire up the smelter!

[trentj81]

wasnt it done for the tourists more than the coal value........god knows thers plenty of it up the valley............not that im complaining it pays the bills lol

[davefromnewy]

Reminds me of the Simpsons episode where Mr. Burns launches his "Slant Drilling Co." (I'm sure they won't getting to the oil before the local public school though here!)

[chloeamyjames]

i do this for a living any idea why they had to drill at angle and not vertical

[peggl]

Very interesting. Newcastle is full of geological history