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Griffin Coal Mine (Wyvern), Collie Shire, Western Australia, Australiai
| Regional Level Types | |
|---|---|
| Griffin Coal Mine (Wyvern) | Mine |
| Collie Shire | Shire |
| Western Australia | State |
| Australia | Country |
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Latitude & Longitude (WGS84):
33° 22' 59'' South , 116° 8' 12'' East
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The Griffin Coal Mining Syndicate was formed in 1926 to test a lease just south of the Collie River. The first mine manager was A.J. Stibbs.
The shareholders were local mining men working at other mines in the district. This co-operative arrangement was common on the coalfield, however somehow it did not prevent conflict with the Miner's Union, and strikes regularly occurred. Sources tend to mention the Griffin and Wyvern mines as separate, but were neighbours accessing the same lode. The Wyvern name starts in 1944. All the workings were closed in 1954, after the coal resources at the site were exhausted. The company moved to open pit mining at Muja, and Griffin is still with us today mining east of Collie.
In 1946 it is mentioned the Wyvern is one of the smallest on the field, employing 35 men, producing 500 tonnes of coal per week. Together the two mines employed about 153 men, producing 340 tonnes of coal per day.
Coal was being sent to the Collie power station. After the war, the mine was mechanised, doing away with the Dickensian hand mining, and ponies. Shuttle cars, a joy loader, and arc wall coal cutter were imported. With a certain sense of wonderment, the process was described as a face of coal 24 feet wide, with 20 holes bored with electric drills, and charged with gelignite.
Mechanical loaders deposited the ore onto conveyor belts, and shuttle cars to the surface. It is then deposited into a tumbler, with fine and large lumps of coal graded automatically by falling through different sized holes.
The mine is just south of Minninup Pool, south of Collie. Just after the Griffin Bridge, the track called the Wyvern Road is taken east. It soon passes the Phoenix mine site, then further on is a large cleared tailings area bordering the track to the south (Griffin?), and smaller area some tens of metres north of the track (Wyvern?). The site follows the same scorched earth policy of other historic mine sites surrounding Collie.
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