Machine Shop Garden demolition Small chairs and desks sit

Small chairs and desks sit under a layer of dust inside the former school at Nichitsu Mining Village

These openings once sat at the centre of one of Australia's largest cement manufacturing operations

bringing combined capacity to approximately 32

sits empty

The depot stored and distributed armaments for Australian

Machine Shop Garden demolition Small chairs and desks sitAn unroofed court within the machine shop at Elrington Colliery, where ferns have taken hold in the only unpaved ground. The machine shop sat alongside the electrical workshop and compressor room in the main workshop building, part of the surface infrastructure BHP Collieries built to support underground operations from 1930 until the mine's closure in December 1962. Part of the Elrington Colliery series.