Bulli - Coal Mining

Just south from the bottom of Bulli Pass, the highway passes under a railway overpass which bares a sign declaring your entry into the 'Black Diamond Township' of Bulli.

Signage at Bulli Beach commemorates the ‘Black Diamond’ mine which began in 1863 and was used in conjunction with a jetty to load the Bulli coal onto ships. The signage also commemorates the historic Bulli Coal Mining Disaster which occurred in 1887.

The mine was closed down in 1987 after 125 years of operation. A number of old timber cottages, shops and other buildings survive from the nineteenth century.

There are a number of mining artefacts from the mid to late nineteenth century and, behind the cottage, the memorial wall recalls the lives lost in the region's mines from 1887 to the present.