Coal and Community - Mining Technology

Main endless hauling machine - Rothbury Colliery, NSW, [n.d.]

Mine tunnel, Ebbw Vale Colliery (New Lambton Coal Company), Adamstown, NSW, 14 June 1897

Aberdare Colliery machinery, Aberdare, NSW, 30 April 1906

Stockrington Number 2 Colliery, NSW, Australia

The Northern (Rhondda) Colliery Nevelin Mercury Arc Rectifier, also known as "The Purple People Eater"

Pit top, timbering machine at Northern (Rhondda) Colliery, (mid 1960s)

Pit top, Timbering Machine at Northern (Rhondda) Colliery (mid 1960s)

From left - Jack Blanche, Norm Stevens, Broncho Maclaughlan wheeling a load at Northern (Rhondda) Colliery - 23 February 1967, by Barry Howard

From left - Jack Blanche, Norm Stevens, George Drydon salvaging the continuous miner at Northern (Rhondda) Colliery, 23 February 1967, by Barry Howard

Richmond Main Colliery - underground worker clipping a skip onto the rope.

Saxonvale Open Cut - Dresser 685E - early 1990s

Mining equipment at Saxonvale Open Cut - early 1990s, by Brett Scott

Saxonvale Open Cut - equipment, mid 1990s

Saxonvale Open Cut - equipment, 2008

Saxonvale Open Cut - equipment, 2009

Saxonvale Open Cut - equipment, 2009

Joy loader & car

Loader

Shuttle car

No. 3 turbine, Richmond Main Colliery, NSW

Recovery by open cutting

Diesel shuttle car

Jeffrey L600 loader