Forty Three Miners Killed In Explosion At Huntly

 Forty three miners killed in an explosion at Huntly
 In the year of 1914 on the 12 of September at 7.20 AM, an explosion at Ralph’s mine on Raynor Rd rocked Huntly. 60 men were in the mine when it was started by a miner’s lamp igniting firedamp but the firedamp caused the explosion.

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The disaster happened in an area at was near Hamilton and Auckland

I had many effects on the miner's families and changed NZ mine completely, now they thinking more about death and injuries

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We can be ready for an explosion by having a...
- gas masks
- First aid kit
- pike axe
- batteries (for tochers) 
- food
- water
- something for communication

- There are some NZ mine disasters Kaitangata mine, South Otago:
21 February 1879, 34 dead

- Brunner mine, West Coast:
26 March 1896, 65 dead

- Ralph's mine, Huntly:
12 September 1914, 43 dead

- Dobson mine, West Coast:
3 December 1926, 9 dead

- Glen Afton mine, Huntly:
24 September 1939, 11 dead

- Strongman mine, West Coast:
19 January 1967, 19 dead

- Pike River mine, West cost:
19 November 2010, 29 dead

This is one of the plans to do in a mine emergency (drill)