![]() ![]() The fortunes of the mine have fluctuated, but Wollongong Lord Mayor Gordon Bradbery said the area's future as a desirable residential location was assured despite the geography posing significant challenges. Want more local news? Sign up to the ABC Illawarra weekly email newsletter Urban expansion despite flood risk The mine had run its course and was closed by BHP Billiton in 2005, only to be later purchased by an Indian coal and steel operation and reopened, with all coal produced now exported. ![]() "I think by the end of the 1930s they have got 1,300 to 1,500 people living there," Dr Mitchell said. In 1935, BHP took over the Wongawilli Colliery and the Port Kembla Steelworks, and boosted the workforce to about 350 people. "When the steelworks is relocated from Lithgow to Wollongong, some of that coking coal is going to the Port Kembla Steelworks." Wongawilli mine was part of the coal and steel industrial boom across the Illawarra in the 1930s and 40s.
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