A $6,000 project to bring mining stories from our past to life has received the financial support of Peel Mining, Aurelia Metals and Cobar Shire Council. A sound system was recently installed at the Cobar Miners Memorial to play recorded information, stories and songs about our mining history. Chair of […]
The Jennmar Australia Cobar branch, a supplier of ground support products to the mining industry, has this week made a donation of $5,000 to the Cobar Miner’s Memorial. Pictured is Miner’s Memorial committee chair Barry Knight with Charlie Kenny, Jennmar’s Central West Service Representative. The committee is working towards holding […]
As earthworks get underway, the Cobar Miners Memorial in the Heritage Park is now starting to look more like the portal entrance to a mine. Cobar Miners Memorial committee chair Barry Knight said the project is expected to be completed by the end of March and hopefully the official […]
In just four months local Barry Knight’s dream of building a miners memorial is expected to become a reality with the ceremonial first sod turned on the project on Friday by the Minister for Western NSW Adam Marshall. Also joining Mr Marshall were Sam Farraway MLC and State Member for […]
The Cobar Miners Memorial Committee is calling for names of people who worked at local mines that were victims of dust diseases to be honoured as part of the Miners Memorial. The committee has been working with Cobar Museum staff to collate not only a list of miners who lost […]
It’s taken four long years of fundraising and petitioning for funds, but Barry Knight’s hard work to build a Miners Memorial is now about to become a reality. Federal Member for Parkes Mark Coulton announced funding for the project last week to the tune of $349,777 and called in last […]
Cobar Shire Council will now be able to go ahead and build a new Miners Memorial structure in the Heritage Park, thanks to $349,777 in Federal Government funding. The funding was announced this week by Federal Member for Parkes, Mark Coulton, and is part of the Coalition Government’s Building Better […]
Chairman of the Cobar Miners Memorial Project Barry Knight reports the Cobar community has been very generous over the past six months with donations to help see the project come to fruition. He said the committee’s major fundraiser of selling pavers (which closes at the end of this month) has […]
A miners memorial service, held on Friday night as part of this year’s Festival of the Miner’s Ghost program, has been hailed as a great success and there are calls for it now to be an annual event. The service was held at the Miners Memorial Park opposite the Great […]
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