Locality files / 01—10
Places made by extraction.
Mining-history dossiers for the streets, railways, workplaces and archives that grew around Australian mineral fields. These are focused mining histories—not complete histories of place.
01 Broken HillNSW Silver · lead · zinc A city built along the Line of Lode, where mining, industrial relations, engineering and urban life became inseparable. Open file ↗ 02 BallaratVIC Gold Gold changed Ballarat’s waterways, settlement pattern, institutions and architecture with extraordinary speed after 1851. Open file ↗ 03 BendigoVIC Gold A goldfield that became a regional city while preserving an unusual concentration of mining landscapes, workers’ housing and institutions. Open file ↗ 04 Kalgoorlie–BoulderWA Gold An Eastern Goldfields city whose twin town centres, civic buildings and continuing industry grew from the 1893 rush. Open file ↗ 05 Mount IsaQLD Copper · lead · zinc · silver A twentieth-century mining city where company, workforce, rail and smelting infrastructure developed as one system. Open file ↗ 06 QueenstownTAS Copper · gold A West Coast town formed by difficult terrain, mineral discoveries, smelting technology and the Mount Lyell industry. Open file ↗ 07 BurraSA Copper One of Australia’s earliest and best-preserved nineteenth-century mining towns, formed around the Burra copper mine. Open file ↗ 08 MoontaSA Copper A copper district whose industrial remains and Cornish community record one of colonial South Australia’s largest enterprises. Open file ↗ 09 CobarNSW Copper · gold · silver A continuing western NSW mining field whose technology, settlement pattern and civic life can be traced from the 1870s. Open file ↗ 10 GympieQLD Gold A Queensland gold town whose irregular streets and civic buildings still follow the field that began in 1867. Open file ↗