Cessnock Mineworkers - Kurri Kurri, NSW, Australia
S 32° 49.152 E 151° 28.821
56H E 357744 N 6367733
The statue of a miner, and the bronze plaque commemorate the importance of the mining industry to the history of the Cessnock and Kurri Kurri region.
Waymark Code: WMVPB9
Location: New South Wales, Australia
Date Posted: 05/13/2017
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The plaque on the base of the statue of the helmeted coal miner reads:
"THE CITY OF CESSNOCK ONCE WAS HOME TO
28 PITS EMPLOYING 11,000 MEN
TODAY THERE IS BUT ONE PIT.
THE STATUE WAS ERECTED ON 15TH AUGUST, 1992.
IN RECOGNITION OF THE IMMEASURABLE
CONTRIBUTION OF
ALL MINE WORKERS TO THE CITY.
Northern District Miners Women`s Auxiliary
Cessnock City Council
United Mine Workers Federation Northern District"
From the Monuments Australia website: (
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"Statue commemorates the contribution of mine workers to the City of Cessnock.
In the late 1800s the Newcastle coalfields were winding down and mine owners were looking for other areas to mine coal. The South Maitland Coalfields had been proven by Sir Edgeworth David, the Government Geological Surveyor, to be the richest coal seam in the Southern Hemisphere so of course, attention shifted to these coal fields. The town of Kurri Kurri was founded in 1902 as the service centre for the local Stanford Merthyr and Pelaw Main mines and the people who worked them. At the height of the mining era in Kurri Kurri there were 28 operational pits, employing 11,000 local men in addition to the people employed in the service industries in the town itself such as shops."
Address: Rotary Park, Lang Street, Kurri Kurri, NSW, 2327
Photographed: 7.25 am, Monday, 25 January, 2016
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