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Suburb of City of Cessnock, New South Wales, Australia
Kitchener
is a small town in the
City of Cessnock
, in the
Hunter Region
in the state of
New South Wales
,
Australia
. Kitchener is located 5 kilometres south of the town of
Cessnock, NSW
and is adjacent to
Werakata National Park
and the
Aberdare State Forest
.
The town is named after
Lord Kitchener
, British secretary for War from July 1914.
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Mining history
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Kitchener was the location of the
Aberdare Central Colliery
which was developed by
Caledonian Collieries
Ltd during
World War I
.
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citation needed
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The historic mine site has been preserved as a Heritage Park (including the poppet head structure). A number of the dwellings where originally occupied by mine management.
In 1914, the mine employed 93 people; four years later it employed 287.
In July 1943, a large fire caused the mine to close for 12 months.
The mine was closed in November 1961. The coal holding lease is still retained by
Coal & Allied
.
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In 2009, a Chinese owned mining company, Austar, was granted approval to construct a surface infrastructure site just south of Kitchener. This facility was built to service the company's Longwall Top Coal Caving mining of the Greta Coal Seam (in the mine previously known as the Southland Coal Mine) south of Kitchener.
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