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Weetulta Yorke Peninsula. Redwing Farm homestead. Built in 1906. The farm established around 1875. Front gate and hedge.
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Burra. Judas tree flowering in mid September as spring arrives. Cercis siliquastrum
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Callington Primary School 1886. Unusual in that the porch was added to a veranda.
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Watervale. Clare Valley. The Hughes Park estate school room for children of employees and the family. Built around 1900 at the rear of the house.
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Broken Hill. St Andrews Presbyterian Church built in 1905. Now a residence. .Foundation stone still exists.
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Whyalla. Scaled model of the Iron Monarch. Built at Whyalla shipyards. In the Whyalla Maritime Museum.
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Isen smelter
by Robert Lien Pettersen

Kapunda. Superb newell on the staircase of the former Andrew Thompson General Store. It is now the Information Centre.
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Burra. Attached to the Kooringa copper miners cottages at Paxton Square is the early 1848 Bible Christian Methodist Church.
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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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Aluminium smelter, Gladstone QLD Australia
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Strathalbyn. High Street. Harringtons old store known as London House. Now an antiques shop. built 1867 with stables at rear for Cobb and Co coaches.
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Oodla Wirra. The ruins of the old flourmill built in 1895 and in operation until 1913. Way beyond Goyders Line but farmers once grew wheat in this country.
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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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Burra. A miniature model of a Cornish working engine house engine. Housed in Morphetts engine house which was built in 1858.
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Moonta Mines. Adjacent to Richmans Enginehouse built in 1869 was a compressor house and concentrating plant. Beyond is the Richmans Tailings Heap.
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Williamtown NSW. The Tomago estate Chapel built in 1861. Tomago House is now a National Trust building.
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Smelt a Rat, Kawin & Company, circa 1910 - Postcard
by Shook Photos

Carn Brae. French Empire style house built in 1908 in Port Pirie.
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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)
by The Library of Congress

Raymond Terrace. NSW. The Anglican Rectory built of local sandstone in 1844. Now run as a function centre. .
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Flaveria bidentis (Asteraceae) Smelters bush
by brianvds

Tungkillo. This old copper mining town was established 1851 a government school opened in 1861. The original government school is gone but this building from around 1924 remains. The red brick school has been cemented over. Closed 1970.
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Sur la plage de Dunkerque
by Dominique Levesque

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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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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Broken Hill. The former Bank of South Australia 1889. In 1893 the building became the AMP. Built in classical style with pilasters and rectangular windows with no decoration. Great symmetry
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Wyandotte, Michigan
by Ken Lund

Whyalla. In the Maritime Museum is this model of the Iron Monarch built here by BHP in 1973. 179 metres long and over 19,500 tons.
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Raymond Terrace. The old headmaster's residence at the primary school. Built circa 1905.
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Whyalla. Art Deco style and frescoes of the steelworks in the cement rendering. It was completed in 1939 as the city grew with a steel works and with shipbuilding.
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smelter stack indicates clarkdale approach
by Verde Canyon Railroad

SMELTING PLANT, COPPER CLIFF, ONT.
by jasonwoodhead23

Kapunda. The railway bridge across the Light River. This line was constructed in 1860 to service the copper mine in Kapunda.
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Kapunda. Established as a copper mining town in 1842. Twin towers of teh former Baptist Church, chimney stack from the copper mine, church on left is the old Wesleyan Methodist Church.
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Chillagoe. Tree roots into the karst caves at Royal Cave site.
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Watervale. Clare Valley. The Hughes Park estate school room for children of employees and the family. Built around 1900 at the rear of the house. This is the school entrance.
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Whyalla. At the Mount Laura National Trust Homestead museum an old movie projector with a poster for the film Gone With the film Wind behind it. . .
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Wyandotte, Michigan
by Ken Lund

Port Augusta. The Target store which was an old importers general store founded in 1867. Bignell and Young. Classical Greek style with pediment balustrade on roof line etc built in 1882.
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Whyalla. At the Mount Laura National Trust Homestead museum one of the old railway engines used by BHP from 1901 onwards to cart iron ore from Iron Knob to the port at Whyalla.
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Port Augusta. The fine old stone Institute building erected in 1876. It closed as an institue in 1971.
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Kapunda. Old copper mining town with a large Irish immigrant population. A stained glass window in St Rose' Catholic Church built 1938. A memorial to all the priests who served the church.
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External view of Eringa. Home of Sir Sidney Kidman donated to government as Kapunda High school in 1912
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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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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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Picturesque double railway viaducts just outside of Lithgow in New South Wales Australia.
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Round settling tanks and Cornish style copper mine chimney vent at Callington copper mine in South Australia. It was the Bremer mine.
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Burra. SA. 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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Grave Marker in Smelter Cemetery Asarco Smelter Works in the Background ...
by U.S. National Archives

Kapunda. Interior of Eringa the former home of Sir Sidney Kidman. He donated it for Kapunda High School in 1921. Stained glass windows in doors of bullrushes and reeds installed about 1900.
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Kapunda. The beautiful hospital. Built in 1877. The cast iron lacework on the veranda probably came from Hawkes Foundry in Kapunda. Dutton of Anlaby was the main donor for the building
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Leighton. Near Booborowie.The original Leighton Primitive Methodist Church built in 1871. Now a residence.
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Remains of the old copper smelter works of the Wallaroo Mines and the Moonta Mines. Complex main investor and owner was Sir Walter Watson Hughes. At one time there were 13 smelting chimney stacks. Only one the Hughes stack remains at Wallaroo.
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Oodla Wirra. Railway workers cottage beside the old railway line to Broken Hill. The line reached here in 1886. This house built around 1910
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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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Herd of Sheffield 2016 – 28. Tin Lizzie
by Karen Roe

Magnificent Port Augusta branch of Bank of SA building erected 1881. Taken over by Union Bank 1882 and closed as a bank forever in 1894. Good classical style and proportions.
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The River Ock: Smelting the Sky
by Giles Watson's poetry and prose

Milford Sound. This deep fjord was created by glaciation.
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