Men crushed in mine
• fJf.Z. Pre ft Assn—Copy r'ght) MOUNT ISA. Residents of the western Queensland mining town of Mount Isa have opened a fund for the families of two men, one a New Zealander, who died in a rockfall in a copper mine on Thursday. ; The fund’s target has been set at $2OOO. The two men who died were Terry Ushaw. aged 30. of Auckland, and Tonv Lah, aged 46. of Mount Isa. They were drilling 800 metres below the surface ofi the mine when the overhead] r ock face caved in. crushing] them beneath tonnes of rock.]
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Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33932, 27 August 1975, Page 20
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