coppermining

Kapunda. Old copper mining town. The former Kapunda Herald newspaper office built inn 1866. Now a copper museum.
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Bethel. The ruins of Moravian Brethren Pastor Schondorf. When the community split Moravian church servcies werr held here. Built around 1856.
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Bethel. The Lutheran Church here was built in 1895. It was a Brethren church as Moravian followers also worshipped here. The wooden altar. Services every Sunday.
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Bethel. The Lutheran Church here was built in 1895. It was a Brethren church as Moravian followers also worshipped here. The interior. Services every Sunday.
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Palmer. Christ Church Evangelical Lutheran Church. Built in 1872. The bell tower was added in 1928.
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Palmer. SA. The bell tower and some stones of St Pauls Lutheran Church built in 1873. Demolished after the 1967 amalgamation of the two Lutheran Churches in Palmer. This memorial behind Christ Church Lutheran.
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Palmer. Sth Aust. The old Palmer Hotel was built in 1868 and is still trading. Palmer was near the Reedy Creek Copper mine.
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Palmer. The state school opened in 1883. A stone school built on this site in 1893. Demolished. Only 1950s wooden classrooms remain of earlier eras.
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Palmer. The town was established in 1869 near the former Reedy C reek Copper mine. Developed by the Australian Mining Company and Sir Samuel Davenport. Old 18 paned store.
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Palmer. The town was established in 1869 near the former Reedy C reek Copper mine. Developed by the Australian Mining Company and Sir Samuel Davenport. The general store was built in 1898. .
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Palmer. Christ Church Evangelical Lutheran Church. Built in 1872. The bell tower was added in 1928. Teh church hall was added mroe recently. Note the colourful stained glass windows in the church.
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PaLmer. Old copper mining town. The first Police station was built in 1873, the second in 1884 and this grand one with cells behind it in 1934.
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PaLmer. Old copper mining town. The first Police station was built in 1873, the second in 1884 and this grand one with cells behind it in 1934. Now known as the Old Jail House.
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Palmer. SA. The bell tower and some stones of St Pauls Lutheran Church built in 1873. Demolished after the 1967 amalgamation of the two Lutheran Churches in Palmer.
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Palmer. Christ Church Evangelical Lutheran Church. Built in 1872. The bell tower with a fine stained glass window was added in 1928.
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Palmer. Established 1869 by the Australian Minign Company who owned Reedy Creek copper mine. Sir Samuel Davenport established this experimental olive grove in the 19th centruy. The Centenary Art Deco oval gates.
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PaLmer. Old copper mining town. The first Police station was built in 1873, the second in 1884 and a third in 1934. These are the stubstanial stone cells behind the old Police Station.
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Burra. Redruth Courthouse in the government town. Built in 1857. Architect Edward Hamilton. Built near the 1856 Redruth Gaol.
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Burra. Redruth Courthouse in the government town. Built in 1857. Architect Edward Hamilton. The rear of the bluestone Courthouse today. .
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Burra. Redruth. The entrance porch with label for the Redruth Police Station. Built in 1879 in the Italianate style. Close 1971. Now a private residence..
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Kapunda. Old copper mining town. The former School of Mines. Built around 1860.
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Cobar. Outback copper and gold mining town in NSW. The Catholic Church built in 1905.
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Cobar. Outback copper and gold mining town in NSW. The Catholic Church built in 1905. Opened by Bishop of Wilcannia.
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Cobar. Outback copper and gold mining town in NSW. The Catholic Church built in 1905. The altar.
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Cobar. Outback copper and gold mining town of NSW. The open cut of one of many old mines.
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Cobar. Outback copper and gold mining town of NSW. The road down to a mine shaft entrance from the open cut.
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Cobar. Outback mining town. The railway station. The railway from Dubbo to Bourke opened in 1883 to Cobar.
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Moonta Mines. A traditional Chinese blue willow pattern dinner service in the former copper miner's cottage. It is now a National Trust Museum. Moonta copper mines were established in 1861.
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Moonta Mines. Purple osteospermum in an old cut down tree trunk in the cottage garden of the National Trust's Moonta Mines miner's cottage. .
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Moonta Mines. Old SAR South Australian Railways map, not to scale, of central rail lines from Adelaide in the 1930s or 1940s.
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Moonta Mines. Purple and yellow and white English Iris in the cottage garden of the National Trust's Moonta Mines miner's cottage.
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Copper mining infrastructure
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Lavender Pit
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Lavender Pit
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Aroona Dam in the Flinders Ranges. Amazing reflections.
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Blinman cemetery. In the Flinders Ranges. Beautiful marble headstone for Fredrick Williams.
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Blinman. Flinders Ranges. Old copper miner's pug and pine cottage and stone kitchen from the 1860s.
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Blinman. In the Flinders Ranges. Old copper mining town. Old miner's cottage of pug and pine and a separate stone kitchen.
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Blinman. Living room in a copper miner's cottage from the 1860s. Queen Victoria over the fireplace.
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Burra. Kooringa. This building opened as the burra Telegraph Station in 1860 and then as the Post Office. Since 1960 it has been the town Art Gallery.
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Burra. Old advertising on the side of the former National Bank. NAB.
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Burra. Old copper mining town. The Catholic Church and tower opened in 1874. Nearby is the Presbytery. Light on the spire.
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Burra. Old copper mining town. The Catholic Church and tower opened in 1874. Next door is the Presbytery.
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Blinman in the Flinders Ranges. This copper mining town was established in 1864. This cottage dates from the 1860s in Blinman right next to North Blinman established in 1867. .
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Blinman in the Flinders Ranges. This was the galvanised iron Methodist Church from around 1874. It closed around 1943 and became the libary. Now it is the information centre with new external cladding.
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Blinman old copper mining town in the Flinders Ranges. Large copper scultpure near the town information centre.
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Moonta Mines. Taylors crushing works next to Taylors Shaft and Taylors Winding House. .
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Moonta Mines. Taylors Shaft. The deepest at Moonta 2,520 feet deep.
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Moonta MInes. Walter Watson Hughes Enginehouse.
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Moonta Mines. Walter Watson Hughes Boilerhouse.
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Moonta Mines. Hughes Walk with teh ruins fo the Hughes, Elder and Smith shafats, enginehouses, boiler houses, water tanks, concentrating plant etc.
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Moonta Mines. Elders Lode.
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Moonta Mines. Robert Barr Smith shaft.
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Moonta Mines. Elders Enginehouse. 1863.
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Callington an old copper mining town attracted Cornish settlers. In 1862 they built a Primitive Methodist Church. It closed in 1900 with Methodist Union and has been for decades a residence.
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Callington an old copper mining town attracted Cornish settlers. In 1862 they built a Primitive Methodist Church. It closed in 1900 with Methodist Union. It has been for decades a residence.
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Callington an old copper mining town on the Bremer River. This fine stone and brick flourmill was erected in 1858. It closed in 1859 and has been a residence for many years.
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Callington copper mining town on the Bremer River. Old general store and resindence in the main street Montefiore Street. Built in the late 1850s
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Callington on the Bremer River. A very rusty old model T Ford in a yard.
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Callington. The Bremer River in this old copper mining town is crossed by the beautiful Erskine Bridge built in 1890 and still in use.
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