page_title: Balmain Colliery
hierarchical_section_title: Balmain Colliery
caption_attribution_description: Balmain Colliery, New South Wales, Australia.
context_page_description: Balmain Colliery was a coal mine located in Birchgrove in the inner-west of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. It produced coal from 1897 until 1931 and natural gas until 1945. At approximately 800 metres in depth, it remains the deepest coal mine ever to have been sunk in Australia.
context_section_description: Balmain Colliery was a coal mine located in Birchgrove in the inner-west of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. It produced coal from 1897 until 1931 and natural gas until 1945. At approximately 800 metres (2,600 ft) in depth, it remains the deepest coal mine ever to have been sunk in Australia.
caption: Balmain Colliery, Birthday Shaft, c. 1940s
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