coppermining

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 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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Copper mining and sulfuric acid plant, Copperhill], Tenn. (LOC)
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Burra. The womens exercise yard and outside dunny at 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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A train bringing copper ore out of the mine, Ducktown, Tenn. Fumes from smelting copper for sulfuric acid have destroyed all vegetation and eroded the land (LOC)
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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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Moonta MInes. Ruins of the winding house and crushing plant at Taylors Shaft. The deepest copper mining shaft on the Moonta fields. Built 1865
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Coniston Coppermines Youth Hostel
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Moonta Mines. Richmans Enginehouse1869 and beyond it the mullock heap or Richmans Tailing Heap. Next to the enginehouse was the concentrating plant. Nearby is Taylors Shaft the deepest Moonta copper mine at 2,520 feet.
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Moona Mines historic copper mining site. Hughes Enginehouse built 1865, the Hughes Boiler House and chimney built 1865. Nearby the Hughes, Elder and Barr Smith shafts. Three boilers imported from Cornwall.
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Historic Blinman in the Flinders Ragnes. This adit leads into the old copper mines wich began operations in 1862 with the Yudnamutana Mining Company. The mine finally closed around 1914.
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Moonta. The Town Hall of 1907 was built in 1885 as an Institute. The clock tower was added in 1907 when it became the Town Hall.
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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. It has a gallery of good historical photographs. .
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Wallaroo..The Hughes smelter chimney with the remnants of furnaces below built into the bank. In its heyday in the 1860s there were thirteen smelter chimneys at Wallaroo. The Hughes copper smelter chimney was built in 1861.
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Burra. Judas tree flowering in mid September as spring arrives. Cercis siliquastrum
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Kapunda. Stables and sheds behind the Prince of Wales Hotel. The hotel was established in 1858.
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Kapunda. The Dutton copper mine chimney. Built in 1850 by Cornish miners. The Dutton mine began around 1842. The chimney was linked to the boiler house and the draft from the furnace fires was released up this chimney stack.
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Kapunda. Beside the Dutton copper mine is this chimney built in 1850 by Cornish miners. The Dutton mine began in 1842. The chimney was linked to the boiler house and the draft from furnace fires was drawn into the chimney stack.
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Kapunda copper mine. All that remains of the Bull or Buhl Enginehouse which sat over a shaft 360 feet deep.The enginehouse ran the pump that removed water from the deep shaft. It operated from 1851 to the closure of the mine in 1878.
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Kapunda. The Returned Services League Hall or War Memorial Hall in Kapunda.
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Moonta Mines historic copper mining site. Hughes tanks were built in stone in 1865 to hold water pumped from the Hughes Shaft by the Hughes Enginehouse.
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Historic Blinman in the Flinders Ranges. This bell currently used by the Anglican Church of Blinman was purchased from Cornwall by the copper mining company of Yudnamutana which ran the copper mines from 1862 to 1872.
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Open-pit workings of the Utah Copper Company, Bingham Canyon, Utah. This is the Carr Fork side from which the company obtains huge amounts of ore. The Carr Fork bridge and main shops appear in the foreground (LOC)
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Moonta MInes. The ruins of the Moonta Mines powder or explosive magazine. It was surrounded by an earthen embankment in case of explosions. Built around 1875.
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Moonta Mines. East Moonta congregation was formed in 1869 as the sign says. The church and Sunday School was built in 1872. .
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Bronze statue of the miner. Mt Isa. Outside the city museum. Similar to the stockman statue in Longreach .
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Callington. An old copper mining town from 1849. The fine Werner family headstone in the Callington cemetery. Most of the local farmers were of German descent.
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Kadina. Entrance hall in Matta house. This was the Matta copper mine managers house built in the early 1860s. The house now in the Farmshed Museum.
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Kapunda. An old copper mining town from 1842 to 1878. Stone sheds behind the Prince of Wales Hotel. The hotel was established in 1858.
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Mt Isa mines.
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Burra. The facade 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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Palmer. Christ Church Evangelical Lutheran Church. Built in 1872. The bell tower was added in 1928.
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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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Raindrop Galaxy
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Moonta MInes historic copper mining site. The ruins of Richmans Enginehouse 1869 and next to it were the concentrating plant and a compressor house etc.
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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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Moonta copper mine site. Copper rich stones used in 1865 to build the three Hughes Enginehouse water tanks.
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Kapunda. South Australian copper mining town. A track side view of the Kapunda Railway station which was completed in 1860. It closed in the 1980s and is now a residence.
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Moonta copper Mine. Stone monuments by Walter Watson Hughes. The Hughes Boilerhuose and chimney, the Hughes Enginehouse and in the foreground the Hughes three water tanks. All built 1865.Copper rich stones used.
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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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Grunthal Copper mine buildings erected 1872 near Verdun.
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Burra. The heritage listed ruins of the copper mine. This was Morphetts winding house next to his engine house and boiler house. Winding House built in 1861.
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