Episode 247: Trapped in the Beaconsfield Mine

Not Today

Society & Culture, Comedy, True Crime

4.5 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

On April 25th 2006, a small earthquake triggered an underground rockfall at the Beaconsfield gold mine in northern Tasmania. Of the seventeen people who were in the mine at the time, fourteen escaped immediately following the collapse, however three men were unaccounted for. Larry Knight, Brant Webb and Todd Russell were missing and only two of them would come out alive after two weeks being trapped nearly 1 kilometer below the surface.

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0:00.0	Hey, I'm Steph.
0:01.0	I'm Alex.
0:02.0	And this is not today.
0:03.0	And we're live.
0:04.0	Hey.
0:05.0	How are you?
0:06.0	How are you? Great. How are you? And we're live.
0:21.5	Hey.
0:22.3	How are you?
0:23.0	Great.
0:23.5	How are you?
0:24.2	I'm feeling like 24-carat gold.
0:27.2	Soft?
0:28.2	Yep.
0:28.6	And easily scratched?
0:29.8	Malleable.
0:31.0	We're learning so much.
0:32.1	And from time to time, shiny.
0:34.8	Interesting you say that, because today we're talking about a gold mine.
0:37.9	Do we have news?
0:39.3	Yeah, actually.
0:40.4	When this episode comes out, we should have a bonus episode also coming out.
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