North Mount Lyell disaster

The North Mount Lyell disaster (also known as the Mount Lyell disaster and North Mount Lyell fire)[1] refers to a fire that broke out on 12 October 1912 at the Mount Lyell Mining and Railway Company operations on the West Coast of Tasmania, killing 42 miners. The mine had been taken over from the North Mount Lyell Company in 1903.[2]

  1. ^ Later references now conflate the North Mount Lyell and Mount Lyell locality names to the Queenstown disaster
  2. ^ The Peaks of Lyell Fourth Edition, end of chapter 17 The Fall of an Empire page 161