During a drunken quarrel at the Alma Diggings, a man dragged the woman he lived with over to a nearby mine shaft. He held her by the legs over the sixty foot shaft, kicking her grasping hands away from the edges, then let her drop […]
Trompf’s Amalgamated Mine, Adelaide Lead VIC
The remains of Trompf’s Amalgamated Mine lie within the Paddys Ranges State Park near Maryborough VIC. Visitors can stop by for a look at the huge mullock heaps, machinery foundation rubble, and open stopes of the mine which operated there from the late 19th century. […]