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Location of Beaconsfield. The Beaconsfield gold mine collapsed on 25 April 2006 in Beaconsfield, Tasmania, Australia.Of the seventeen people who were in the mine at the time, fourteen escaped immediately following the collapse, one miner (Larry Knight) was killed, while the remaining two (Brant Webb and Todd Russell) were found alive on the sixth day by miners Pat Ball and Steve Saltmarsh.
Aussie Gold Hunters is an Australian factual television show which follows crews of gold prospectors in Australia. The series is produced by Electric Pictures and began on the Discovery Channel on 15 September 2016. The series has been a ratings success and gone on to air in 125 countries including the United Kingdom.
Australia: New Australasian Gold Mine disaster: Australia's worst below-ground gold mining disaster. [1] 1971 Certej Mine Romania: 1971 Certej dam failure: A dam failure resulted in the leak of 300,000 cubic metres of cyanide-contaminated flood Certeju de Sus, resulting in 89 deaths. 1984-2013 Ok Tedi Mine Papua New Guinea: BHP Australia
Fred 'Dakota' Hurt, the rugged white-water gold miner who appeared in Discovery's docuseries 'Gold Rush: White Water,' has died after a short battle with brain cancer.
6 December 2024: Peter Groves (29), a drilling contractor died at a remote mineral exploration site in the state. He had worked for Challenge Drilling as a contractor on the Apollo Hill Gold Project. [5] [6] 23 April 2024: Eli Kelly (21) died from crush injuries sustained in a tailings paste plant at Gold Fields' St Ives gold mine, near ...
Lewis Harold Bell Lasseter (27 September 1880 – c. 31 January 1931 [1]), also known as Harold Lasseter, was an Australian gold prospector who claimed to have found a fabulously rich gold reef in central Australia, subsequently known as Lasseter's Reef.
During the Australian gold rushes, starting in 1851, significant numbers of workers moved from elsewhere in Australia and overseas to where gold had been discovered. Gold had been found several times before, but the colonial government of New South Wales (Victoria did not become a separate colony until 1 July 1851) had suppressed the news out of the fear that it would reduce the workforce and ...
Edward Hammond Hargraves (7 October 1816 – 29 October 1891) was a gold prospector who claimed to have found gold in Australia in 1851, starting an Australian gold rush. Early life Edward Hammond Hargraves was born on 7 October 1816 in Gosport, Hampshire , England, the son of Elizabeth (née Whitcombe) and John Edward Hargraves.