Collieries and Coal Mines of the Newcastle Coalfields

27/02/2026

05/01/2026

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06/12/2025

Chain Valley, worked there for 6 years in the 2000’s
Roof support in Conglomerate is certainly different, kept you on your toes, not all beers and skittles!
I was a crew leader we drove a drift down to the Fassifern Seam(have to check up on that)

1st photo is not Chainy my bad

13/09/2023

Someone asked where was the location of Dudley it’s @ 15kms South of Newcastle named after the Colliery of the same name. Not forgetting that a lot of miners named places that reminded them of where they grew up in England.
Further statements where made about its location ie “newy”etc.
The mines around Newcastle and Lake Macquarie (The Neawcastle Coalfields)
Are not delineated by council boundaries.
This photo scanned from John Grothen’s Book on Burwood Colliery, so the quality is’t all that good(I’ll endeavour to find a clearer version), it shows the Coal seams that underlay Newcastle and Lake Macquarie. Layed down millions of years ago, well before council boundaries.
The Greta Seams which form the South Maitland Coalfields are deeper, under the Newcastle Coalfields but are exposed closer to the surface around Maitland, Kurrie, Cessnock and Branxton. The Upper Hunter Coal Seams around Singleton and Musswelbrook Etc and so on
I hope this clears up some lack of information

08/09/2023

Post on fb today

23/07/2023

Post I did earlier today, “the picture disappeared”, I shall try and source another tomorrow.

11/04/2023

Again not mine, I have an article published when the Charlestown bypass was being excavated I’ll have to dig it up
Pun intended !