& The Cornish Abroad
All along the cliffs from Perranporth to Cligga Head are prosperous mine workings that have worked under several names and often together. These include: Great...
This will be as complete a list of engine houses and major opening and closing dates of all the mines featured on this website as...
In west Penwith the men-an-tol is a famous site made up of four standing stones. Thought to be of Neolithic Early-Bronze Age origin (2500-1500 BCE)...
Eight years after the formation of the South Australian colony and just one year after ‘Coppermania’ started at Kapunda, more copper was found at what […]
Just 175km west of Kalgoorlie is the former pastoral lease Jaurdi Homestead, nestled within the Great Western Woodland. Following Ryan’s Find Road from the Great […]
On the Yorke Peninsula are the scant remains of Wallaroo mine, the mine that started the third South Australian copper rush after Kapunda in 1842 […]
Just a short distance north of Kalgoorlie are the well-kept remains of Goongarrie Homestead. Encompassing roughly 60,000 hectares, the Goongarrie Homestead was once a working […]
The Kapunda Mine, established in 1844, was the first successful copper mine in Australian history. Copper was actually discovered here two years prior by Francis […]
Tucked away in a eucalyptus forest are the scant remains of our of South Australia’s greatest silver mines: Talisker Mine. The mine here was opened […]
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