What the records say
- When
- 21 Jan 1960
- Kind
- Mining accident
- Coordinates
- 26.85° S, 27.88° E
- Description
- 1960 mineshaft collapse at Clydesdale Colliery, South Africa
- Deaths
- 435
2 sources record it
- Wikidata: air, rail, road, mining and industrial accidentsWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Coalbrook mining disaster: A coal mine collapses at Holly Country, South Africa, killing 435 miners”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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