Miner's safety lamp

Miners used safety lamps such as this from the nineteenth century to light underground mines. In coal mines they shielded the naked flame from potentially explosive mixtures of methane and oxygen.

Location

Australia
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Queensland Museum
Salford, Manchester, England
23 November 2010
23 November 2010

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Australia
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Exploitation
Exploitation: taking and using things from the landscape
Mining
Dimensions
250mm
80mm
80mm

Mount Crosby Ipswich coalfield, 1972

1 January 1972
17 November 2010
17 November 2010
17 November 2010
Brisbane
Department of Mines

Collection of the Queensland State Archives

Queensland mapping since 1900

Department of Mines, Mount Crosby, Ipswich Coalfield, 1972. Lease register. An example of a thematic map produced by the Department of Mines. Collection of the Queensland State Archives

The coal miners

The coal miners

by Eric MacKenzie

They shuffle out, darkened by need,

a minstrel show of faces, fake.

Location

Australia
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19 October 2010
19 October 2010
19 October 2010

Rodney Hall (ed), Poems from prison, St Lucia, UQP, 1973

Coal
Australia
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Coal

Queensland is the world’s third biggest coal exporter.

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Port Clinton

Port Clinton

North of Yeppoon lies Shoalwater Bay, the largest undeveloped area on the Queensland coast south of Cairns. The coastal profiles drawn by William Westall, the artist with Matthew Flinders, still depict this magnificent unchanged coastline. The swamps and dunes have high environmental and scientific values and are the source of the water supply for the Capricorn Coast. The area was listed on the Register of the National Estate in 1980 and its wetlands recognised as a Ramsar Site.

Collection of Carol Gistitin

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