In 1848 the first of these old mines was discovered, and in it was found a mass ot pure copper, weighing six tons, which had been raised by ancient wedges, and rolled along the gallery.

But the old mines also left behind a legacy of trouble for today’s Westerners. Abandoned mines dot the Western landscape, polluting the region’s streams with acid mine drainage and connecting the ...

Located at the site of the former Muswellbrook Coal Mine, which opened in 1907 but was shuttered in 2022, the pumped hydro project will utilise the northern mine void of the former open-cut mine ...