Newspaper - Kangaroo Flat Gold Mine Collection: shaft subsidence, 1995

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'Bendigo Advertiser' article 9th August, 1995 'The wet brings danger to old gold mine area'. Article describes mine shaft subsidence that has occurred in 'roads, parks, backyards and school grounds' following 'heavy rain in the past month'. It was estimated that 'in Bendigo alone there were up to 3000 shafts on private land and about the same number on Crown land, all dotted along the 11 gold reefs between Kangaroo Flat and Eaglehawk'.
Black and white photo of Peter Bentley, Mining and Extraction Co-ordinator, North Western region, standing in 'a now capped hole left by the collapse of a shaft at Bendigo'.

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