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11. An Important Industry

A large and important Industry

The mineral leases

The port

The mountain's rocks

Sufficient for hundreds of years

The works

12. The Names of the Quarries

13. Gold

Extracts from Annual Mining Report. 1899.

14. Bulahdelah Mining Fatality

Tunnel collapse - Two dead, one injured

The Inquest

The funeral

The Inquiry

15. The Company's Engineer

Early life

Marriage

Working life

A kind, multi-skilled man

Recognition for a life's work

16. The Alum Mountain In 1924

Bid to build a tramline

Panoramic views without peer

17. 1925 - A Geologist's Report & a Road Crossing

The geologist's report

Alum Co. directed to repair road crossing

18. 1927 - Alum Mountain News

Lease relinquished

Town suffers from mine closure

19. Early 1900s Bulahdelah

A slow time for the quarry

Boy hurt on mountain

Dredging of river required

Quarry still working

Bushfires

Working of new mineral lease starts

A new tramline

New mine manager arrives

Sad accident at Alum Mountain

20. The Big Flood of 1927

Easter rains

Punts washed away

Damage to the town and farms

Damage to the mine

Floodwaters falling

 

21. 1931 Bulahdelah

Alum Company suspends operations
Company boat dismantled
Labour conditions suspended
People

22. 1932 - A New Beginning

Rumour

Alunite Mining Co. sold

A test consignment of ore

Will the mine reopen?

Council approval

Continued on next page.

 

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