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Rhondda Colliery, Teralba, Lake Macquarie
Source:
Newcastle Morning Herald
Details:
The Rhonda Colliery, which is being opened up on the estate of James Donaldson out Apple Tree Flat way, will enable Messrs. Laidley and Co., the owners of the Co-operative Colliery, to considerably augment their output of coal. A fine seam has been struck in the tunnel at about 100 yards from the surface, the grade of the tunnel being about 1 in 12. In all probability the mine will be coal-producing before the end of the year. The railway to connect with the main Great Northern line near Cockle Creek is now being constructed over a distance of about three miles, Mr. John Ahearn having this contract, at a cost of something like £9000. Mr. Archibald Gardiner is the supervising engineer for Messrs. Laidley and Co. A number of wagons are now being built, some of them at the engineering firm of Goninan and Co., at Wickham. The entire cost to make Rhonda a big coal-producing mine will, it is said, be about £30,000.
