Glencore blows up West Wallsend storage bin

GLENCORE has demolished a concrete storage bin at its decommissioned West Wallsend colliery in New South Wales with an explosion that was felt throughout the western Lake Macquarie region.

Glencore blows up West Wallsend storage bin

Underground at the old West Wallsend colliery.

26 June 2018
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The company gave up hopes of salvaging the longwall equipment at the West Wallsend mine that was buried by a roof collapse in late June, 2015.

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