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Memorial remembers miners, looks to future

The community gathers for the Broken Hill Miners Memorial. Picture: Supplied
Lachlan Gould

ON 7 October 1902, Thomas Jordan, aged 19, and Leopold Campbell, aged 21, went to work on the Line of Lode. They began their shifts at 11pm, not knowing that they wouldn’t see the sunrise the next day. At 3am, the men were in the southern part of the mine, when tragically the section collapsed, […]

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