Premier Anna Bligh said the second annual Miners Memorial Day would be a fitting tribute to those who had died in mining tragedies across three different centuries in Queensland.
"Seventy-five miners – fathers, husbands, brothers and sons – lost their lives in a coal dust explosion at Mount Mulligan in Far North Queensland on this day, the worst mining disaster in Queensland's history," she said.
"Today, our mines are safer but we, the mining family, are striving higher to our collective goal of zero harm.”
Bligh revealed the three artists who have been shortlisted as designers for the Brisbane-based Miners Memorial Monument.
Rhyl Hinwood, Scott Maxwell and Christopher Trotter are all highly experienced in public artwork, with several of their pieces prominently displayed in Brisbane.
