Man survives 15-metre fall down Percydale mine when ladder gives way

Updated September 13 2012 - 1:17pm, first published February 7 2001 - 12:20pm

A MELBOURNE-based geologist suffered lacerations to the face and body and a broken ankle when he fell 15-metres down a 60-metre mine shaft near Avoca yesterday.

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