The Asgard mine was started in 1881, it was never commercially viable. It's a tunnel of about 20 metres into a coal seam. I only ventured a short distance into the gloom. Nearby is a brick oven intended to process the coal to produce coke, apparently it has never been fired. All this is in a cliff on the western side if the Grose Valley. Here is a link to a 2016 heritage submission for the mine and coke oven. Lots of waratahs and other flowers out, best time of the year to visit the Blue Mountains.
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| Broad-leaved Drumstick isopogon anemonfolius |
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| Asgard Swamp viewed from Thor Head |
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| A member of the Myrtle family leptospermum sphaerocarpum |
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| Laurel-leaf Grevilla grevillea laurifia |
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| Finger Hakea hakea dactyloides |
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| Waratah telopea speciosissima |
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| Looking out the Coal Mine |
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| Mine entrance |
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| The exposed coal seam in the cliff face |
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| the coke oven |
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| inside the oven |
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| looking down the Grose Valley |
distance: 10Km, moving time: 2hrs, elevation: 438metre
