The Box Flat mine disaster

Grave Tales Australia: the series by Helen Goltz and Chris Adams

May 19, 202015:59Society & Culture

On Monday 31 July 1972, the residents of Ipswich in Queensland were awoken by a blast that destroyed the Box Flat Colliery and killed 17 miners. But what happened to the men of the mine who remained entombed on the site?

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