Rescued miner reflects on Beaconsfield collapse 20 years on | ABC News

On Anzac day in 2006, a minor earthquake triggered a rockfall in Tasmania's Beaconsfield gold mine, killing one miner and trapping two others a kilometre underground. The two-week rescue operation to get Brant Webb and Todd Russell out of the mine captured global attention. Twenty years later it still looms large in the lives of the survivors and their community.

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