UNDERGROUND

Trapped Tahmoor workers freed

TWO workers trapped 160m underground at the Tahmoor metallurgical coal mine south of Sydney, New South Wales for about eight hours have been freed unharmed.

An aerial view of the Tahmoor colliery south of Sydney.

An aerial view of the Tahmoor colliery south of Sydney.

The miners had been in the mine shaft since just after 3pm on Wednesday. They were in a lift travelling from the pit bottom to the surface when an issue with Number Three Shaft Winder led to the protection...

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