I was unsure whether this Open Cut was Yallourn or Yallourn North so asked my good friend, David Roberts at the Brown Coal Mine Museum in Yallourn North. This was his response:
"I believe it is the Yallourn Open Cut. I think the horses came before the endless rope system. The photo shows the initial opening up of the Yallourn cut. In the back ground you can see a shovel loading overburden onto a stacker system, the boom stacker and the pointed heaps of overburden. There is a similar photo in Colin Harvey's book "Yallourn Power Station", it doesn't shown the horses but the conveyors are the same. The heaps of overburden were nick named "Monash Alps". The Brown Coal Mine was a smaller and deeper cut in the beginning. Your photo shows a much broader area."
I was unsure whether this
I was unsure whether this Open Cut was Yallourn or Yallourn North so asked my good friend, David Roberts at the Brown Coal Mine Museum in Yallourn North. This was his response:
"I believe it is the Yallourn Open Cut. I think the horses came before the endless rope system. The photo shows the initial opening up of the Yallourn cut. In the back ground you can see a shovel loading overburden onto a stacker system, the boom stacker and the pointed heaps of overburden. There is a similar photo in Colin Harvey's book "Yallourn Power Station", it doesn't shown the horses but the conveyors are the same. The heaps of overburden were nick named "Monash Alps". The Brown Coal Mine was a smaller and deeper cut in the beginning. Your photo shows a much broader area."