coppermining

Grunthal Copper mine buildings erected 1872 near Verdun.
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Kadina. Side view of Matta House with the high shingle roof. It was built in 1863 for the manager of the Matta matta copper mine. It was purchased by the Kadina Rotary Club in 1965 and opened as a museum in 1967.
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Kapunda. The first home of Sir Sidney Kidman and his wife Isabel. They lived here from 1897 to 1902. They called the house Bald Hill House. It was built around 1870 with crenullations above the entrance.
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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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Kapunda. St Rose red brick Catholic church. It was built in 1938 but the first catholic Church was built nearby at Koonunga in 1850. First Catholic Church in Kapunda was built 1862 demolished 1946.
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Moonta. Yorke Peninsula. Buildings in the historic area of Hughes Moonta copper mines. The chimney of Hughes Boiler House and the ruins of Hughes Enginehouse. Built in 1865.
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Moonta Mines. The gand pipe organ in the Wesleyan Methodist Church of Moonta Mines. This church seats 1250 people.The Cornish copper miners here were staunch Methodists. Church built 1865.
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Moonta Mines. SA. The stone Moonta Mines School was built in 1878 and added to several times. It is now the Moonta Mines Museum. This was a copper mining town from 1861.
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Kadina. Matta House with the high shingle roof was built in 1863 for the manager of the Matta matta copper mine. It was purchased by the Rotary Club in 1965 and opened as a museum in 1967.
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Moonta Mines. The ruins of Taylors Shaft copper crushing works. The shaft was 2,520 feet deep. A Cornish beam winding engine pulled the ore to this crushing plant.
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Moonta Mines cooper mines. Left is Hughes Enginehouse 1865 and right the chimney and ruins of the Hughes Boiler House 1865. In the distance the Moonta Mines Methodist Church.
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Copper mining and sulfuric acid plant, Copperhill, Tenn. (LOC)
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Burra. This copper mine operated 1845 to 1877. Rust and ruin of Morphetts Boiler House. Built between Morphetts winding house built in 1861 and engine house built 1858..
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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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Copper mining section between Ducktown and Copperhill], Tennessee. Fumes from smelting copper for sulfuric acid have destroyed all vegetation and eroded the land (LOC)
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Blinman old copper mining town in the Flinders Ranges. St Marks Anglican Church opened in 1966. Foundation stone laid by Mrs Fargher.
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Kapunda. The rose window of St Rose Catholic church. It was built in 1938 but the first catholic Church was built nearby at Koonunga in 1850. First Catholic Church in Kapunda was built 1862 demolished 1946.
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Moonta Mines. Copper mining began here in 1861.Cornish miners lived in small cottages like this one mainly built in the 1860s. Now a National Trust Museum.
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Burra SA This great copper mine operated 1845 to 1877. This is Morphetts three story stone Cornish style engine house. Built 1858. Restored in 1986.
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View of the Utah Copper Company open-pit mine workings at Carr Fork, as seen from the railroad, Bingham Canyon, Utah (LOC)
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Blinman and old copper mining town of the Flinders Ranges. Here is some overburden from the old 1862 copper mine and the mine entrance on the left.
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Jerusalem. South Australia. The former Methodist and now Uniting Church. Built in 1956 to replace a church built in 1922 which was then demolished. This is plaque erected 1986.
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San Manuel Railroad
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Governor General Tweedsmuir's plane for flight from Edmonton to Coppermine, 1937
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Burra copper mine. The ruins of the ore dressing sheds built in 1870. This great copper mine operated from 1845 to 1877.In the background a square Welsh ventilation chimney
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Burra School facade and entrance hall. Blue stone gables, high foundations and bell tower over entrance. Built 1878.
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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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Kapunda. The simple marble altar of St Rose' Catholic Church. It was built in 1938 to replace an earlier 1862 Catholic Church.
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Kadina Town Hall South Australia. On Yorke Peninsula.Clock tower added later.
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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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Moonta MInes historic copper mine site. Ruins of the crushing plant at Taylors Shaft. The deepest copper mining shaft on the Moonta fields. Built 1865 next to the winding house.
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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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Kapunda. Architect Edmund Wright desigined this fine sandstone Anglican church in 1856. It was completed with a spire and clock. Kapunda is a copper mining town established in 1844.
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Copper mining and sulfuric acid plant, Copperhill], Tenn. (LOC)
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Callington. Old copper mining town. Most of the district farmers were of German descent. St Peter's Lutheran Church was built in 1864. The bluestone was cement rendered a few decades ago.
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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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Burra. broken glass topped walls of Redruth Gaol built in 1856 in this great copper mining town. Closed in 1894. 1897 became reformatory for girls till 1922. Now a museum. .
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Historic Blinman an old copper mining town of the Flinders Ranges. The North Blinman Hotel opened in 1869 and is still trading with a gallery of good historical photographs. .
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Callington in the Bremer River Valley. Burials in this early copper mining town cemetery begin in 1864. Most of the headstones belong to German farmers or Cornish miners.
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Blinman copper mining town of the Flinders Ranges. This old sandstone Police Station with the cells behind was built in 1874. Long since closed as a police station.
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Kapunda. A view across the main open cut copper mine which began operating around 1844. Behind this site was the Francis Dutton copper mine which began in 1842..
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Moonta Mines. The stone Moonta Mines School was built in 1878 and added to several times. It is now the Moonta Mines Museum. This was a copper mining town from 1861.
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Kadina. In the Farmshed Museum. A model of the Wallaroo Mines copper mines and processing plant. The mine operated from 1859 to 1923. Now all the buildings on the site are demolished and gone.
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Wallaroo Mines a suburb of Kadina. These are the fine stone ruins of Harvey's Enginehouse built in 1876. The 60 inch pump here worked from 1876 to mine closure in 1923.
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Burra. Copper miners dug rooms into the bank of Burra Creek in the late 1840s as homes for their families. Some still remain.
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Callington. Establishd 1849 and copper mining from 1850. This Cornish chimney stack was built in 1874 and the stone engine house was erected in 1874. Mining ceased 1870. Restarted 1872 and closed permanently 1875.
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Copper mining section between Ducktown and Copperhill], Tennessee. Fumes from smelting copper for sulfuric acid have destroyed all vegetation and eroded the land (LOC)
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Kadina. Matta House with the high shingle roof was built in 1863 for the manager of the Matta matta copper mine. It was purchased by the Kadina Rotary Club in 1965 and opened as a museum in 1967.
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Kapunda. South Australian copper mining town from 1842 to 1878. Wonderful intricate pattern cast iron lace work on the veranda of an 1880s house cast in the Hawke Foundry of Kapunda.
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Historic Blinman in the Flinders Ranges. An old copper mining town established in 1863. This stone state school was built in 1883. Closed in 1980. In recent years it was used as a cafe but is now just a residence.
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Tungkillo near Mt Pleasant. The old 19th century general store. The town was estalished around 1851 because of the nearby Reedy Creek copper mine.
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Moonta Mines. Old copper mining town from 1861. This 1860s copper miner's cottage is now a museum. Embroidered mantle piece cloth covering in the living room.
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Kapunda. The former convent built in 1892 for the Domenican Sisters who ran the Catholic School. It has been a private residence for decades and was formerly owned by convicted paedophile Magistrate Peter Liddy.
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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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Moonta Mines historic copper mine site. The ruins of the Hughes Smith and Elder shafts' concentrating plant near the Hughes Enginehouse. Built 1865. Sea water was pumped here and mixed with sulphuric acid.
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Moonta School of Mines opened 1891 in former Baptist church which was built in 1866. In 1903 they built another half of the buiding to match the original 1866 church. Mines School needed as Moonta a big copper mining town.
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Moonta Mines. Copper mining began here in 1861. The Ryans Express tourist train at the museum goes past Ryans shaft and Ryans Enginehouse.
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