Qualla: Agnew Gold Mine https://qualla.com/agnew-gold-mine en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:26 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Agnew Gold Mine https://qualla.com/agnew-gold-mine Agnew Gold Mine: Introduction https://qualla.com/agnew-gold-mine/ In one of the driest landscapes on the continent, it was water that killed them. On 13 June 1989, after exceptionally heavy rain, a flooded open pit at the EMU mine near Agnew began spilling into an adjacent working. A small crew went underground to recover a pump; the ground between the pits eroded away, the inrush became unstoppable, and the manager who drove down to bring his men out was caught with them. Six workers drowned in the decline that day - one of the worst mining disasters in Western Australian history, in a place where the average year brings little rain at all. The mine still operates, renamed and rebuilt, and the irony has only sharpened: today the Agnew Gold Mine runs in large part on the same desert sun and wind that once seemed its only constant.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/e/j/8/agnew-gold-mine-wp/qej8-agnew-gold-mine-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Agnew Gold Mine: The Men of the EMU https://qualla.com/agnew-gold-mine/ They were not statistics, and they should not be remembered as a number. Brett Hansson was twenty-seven. Kerry Peters was thirty-five. Timothy Proctor was thirty. Darryl Sandford was twenty-seven. Darrin Williams was twenty-three. Terreance Martin died alongside them. The flood c...

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/e/j/8/agnew-gold-mine-wp/qej8-agnew-gold-mine-the-men-of-the-emu.mp3 0:06 2 full Agnew Gold Mine: From the EMU to Agnew https://qualla.com/agnew-gold-mine/ Gold has been worked at Agnew since the early 1900s, first by a company called East Murchison United - EMU for short, which gave the original mine its name - and by interests of the flamboyant mining promoter Claude de Bernales. The modern mine took shape in the 1980s, when Weste...

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/e/j/8/agnew-gold-mine-wp/qej8-agnew-gold-mine-deep-rock-and-open-pit.mp3 0:06 4 full Agnew Gold Mine: Powered by Sun and Wind https://qualla.com/agnew-gold-mine/ The most surprising chapter is the newest. In a place defined by isolation and the cost of hauling diesel hundreds of kilometres, Agnew has become a showcase for renewable energy at a mine. Completed in 2020 and built by the energy company EDL, its hybrid microgrid pairs five lar...

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