A former coal mine in Sanxia originally registered as Hongming Coal Mine (宏明煤礦), renamed Tianfu Coal Mine (天富煤礦) in 1955, and operated by provincial assemblyman Lan Maosong (藍茂松) before ownership passed to Chen Tianci (陳天賜) and Huang Zhongchen (黃忠臣) in 1960. Heavy machinery boosted output to over 50,000 tonnes annually by the late 1970s. On December 5, 1984, an explosion in the deepest tunnel killed 93 miners; Zhou Zonglu (周宗魯) was the sole survivor, rescued after 96 hours underground. This was one of the three major coal mine disasters of 1984 in Taiwan (臺灣煤礦73年三大災變). The mine briefly reopened in 1985 but closed permanently in 1988, unable to compete with imported coal. The land was later sold to Xingtian Temple (行天宮) and redeveloped in 2016 as Hengxi Enzhugong Nursing Home (橫溪恩主公護理之家), with all major facilities demolished.
Warning: this location is abandoned, hazardous, or otherwise neglected and may be unsafe and even dangerous! Exercise appropriate precautions when visiting.
警告：此處已廢棄或長期無人管理，可能存在潛在危險。造訪時請務必提高警覺，並做好相關安全防護措施。
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- Wikipedia in Chinese (中文維基百科)
- Taiwan Cultural Memory Bank (文化部國家文化記憶庫)
- Taiwan Cultural Memory Bank (文化部國家文化記憶庫)
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- Mining Industry in Taiwan (台灣礦業)
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I am a web application developer, photojournalist, urban explorer, and history enthusiast passionate about the open web and documenting my experiences on this planet. This project was founded in the early 2010s and has evolved into a sort of personal Wikipedia of places that interest me (and often the photographs I’ve taken there). I’m originally from Toronto, Canada, but spend most of my time residing in Taiwan.