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Balmain Colliery
Balmain Colliery c1920 by John Henry Harvey, courtesy State Library of VIctoria (H91.300/71) The deepest coal mine ever worked in Australia was on the waterfront in Sydney's inner western suburbs. This week we took a look into the pit of a…