Mine Subsidence Devastates Sugarloaf Conservation Area

28 August 2013 In relation to Wallarah 2… A large section of Sugarloaf State Conservation Area in the lower Hunter has been destroyed by massive subsidence from Glencore’s West Wallsend Colliery. A Fairfax Media investigation has uncovered cliff faces crumbled or collapsed, a waterway destroyed, large cracks opened in the earth and a huge collapse of a hillside. Damage was …

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