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Invercargill. Matheson and Company general merchants building in the city centre in Esk Street. Built in 1905. Matheson Co and founded in 1873.
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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. This one with a stone entrance.
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Raymond Terrace. A fine two storey timber framed home. Slade House was erected in 1890. ..
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Watervale. Stone house near the entrance gates to Hughes Park estate. Hughes Park owned by Sir Walter Watson Hughes from 1861. Now owned by the Duncan family.
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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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Grinton Smelt Mill
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Raymond Terrace on the Hunter River. The old wharf area is called King Street after James King an early potter and trader. Old two storey stores in King Street..
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Oodla Wira. The remains of the Oodla Wirra Railway station platform and the ruins of the stone flour mill which operated from 1895 to 1913.
by denisbin

Invercargill. On the third corner of bank corner is the former National Bank. Also built in grand classical style. Also built in the 1870s.
by denisbin

Αθερίνα με κρεμμύδια (smelt with onions)
by topsyntages.gr

Smelt Mill
by The Lead Miner

Beautiful fern pattern wrought iron lacework on old cottage in Main Street of Moonta South Australia. The old copper mining town.
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Watervale. Hughes Park estate. Established 1845. The grand house for Sir Walter Watson Hughes was a single storey house. Enlarged with second storey in 1900 when owned by his heirs the Duncan family. Western facade.
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Locomotive used at the smelters at Mount Isa Mines, ca. 1936
by State Library of Queensland, Australia

Moonta Mines School opened in 1878. Idential to other schools in this copper mining district such as Wallaroo Mines, Moonta and Wallaroo Schools. It was designed for 800 students but opened with 1,000 students. Now a local museum.
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Whyalla. In the Maritime Museum are models of some of the dozens of ships built by BHP in the Whylla shipyards.
by denisbin

Iron Ore Mill and illisit Still @ the Foot of the Lecht-Scotland
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Raymond Terrace. The old Presbyterian Church erected in 1905.
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Smelting pit
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Old smelter, two troops
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Tungkillo. This old hotel opened in 1851. That was probably only the central portion. It was given a 1920s makeover with side additions. Now closed and a residence.
by denisbin

Kanmantoo. South Australia. Old copper mining town from 1846. The late 19th century Post Office. Now a residence.
by denisbin

Advertisement for Selby Smelting and Lead Co.
by California Historical Society Digital Collection

Blacksmith Hit
by JJLosier

Smelter Avenue!
by greaterfalls

Kapunda. The former convent built in 1892 for the Domenican Sisters who ran the Catholic School. It has been a private residence for decades. The cast iron lace work balcony was probably produced in the Hawke Foundry of Kapunda ..
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Bricks and Windows
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Callington. The railway reached here around 1884 on the connection to Melbourne which began 1887. A local resident in the 1890s railway workers cottages has his own little Callington railway station. The old station has been demolished. .
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Port Pirie. Nyrstar 205 metre high refinery stack and the metals refinery.
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Geopedia — a fresh little primer on modern geology
by jurvetson

Moonta Mines. This was a copper mining town mainly for Cornish miners from 1861. Side view of a miner's cottage and garden. Now a museum.
by denisbin

White-hot steel pours like water from a 35-ton electric furnace, Allegheny Ludlum Steel[e] Corp., Brackenridge, Pa. The finest quality steels and alloys are produced in these furnaces, which allow much greater control of temperature than other conversion
by The Library of Congress

Invercargill. NZ. The First Presbyterian Church. One million bricks. Cost 18000 pounds. Opened 1915. The bell tower is 32 metres high. It has a Moorish look about it.
by denisbin

Smelters Bush (Flaveria bidentis)
by Bernard DUPONT

Orroroo South Australia. Main Street in mid winter. Newsagency, pharmacy, hardware shop and coffee shop.
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Strathalbyn. The Victoria Hotel. Established 1865.
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Bronzeblik, smeltet [OBM/FS11162-2]
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Ramond Terrace. NSW. Old warehosue and auction rooms on the Hunter River and King Street. Built around 1854. Run by the Richardson family until 1910.
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Invercargill. Southland NZ. Mrs Watson's Railway Hotel built in 1896 opposite the railway station. In 1907 a three storey section was added to it. Main entrance with cupola and balustrade on roof. .
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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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Invercargill. Mrs Watson's Railway Hotel built in 1896 opposite the railway station. In 1907 the three storey section was added to it. .
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Burra copper mine. The ruins of Morphetts winding house. Built in 1861. This great copper mine operated from 1845 to 1877. It is next to Morphetts engine house which had a huge Cornish beam engine. Old rusty boiler...
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Port Pirie. St Marks Catholic Cathedral. Built in a simple romanesque style and opened in 1953.
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Invercargill. Cambridge Buildings built in Art Deco style around 1930. Esk Street.
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Smelt it / Dealt it
by Dom Christie

Port Pirie cemetery. An unsual and decorative headstone for Eliza Kimbley.
by denisbin

Talisker silver mine. Near Cape Jervis. The ruins of the stone crusher plant built in 1863. The mine site also had a smelting works and calcinating plant. The mine closed in 1872. .
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Whyalla. The World War Two fortifications and lookout on Hummock Hill. Overlooking Spencers Gulf.
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Mingo Smelter
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Invercargill. Mrs Watson's Railway Hotel built in 1896 opposite the railway station. In 1907 a three storey section was added to it. Main entrance with cupola and balustrade on roof. .
by denisbin

Invercargill. The Edwardian baroque style Town Hall and Civic Theatre. Built in 1906.
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Whyalla. The Whyalla Hotel built of local red iron stone in 1933. It was extended in 1940 and is now an apartment hotel.
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Moonta Mines historic copper mining site. Hughes Enginehouse built in 1865 by Walter Watson Hughes and associates.Closed 1923. Had a 60 inch Cornish engine. Next to stables, boiler house and concentrating tanks.
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Moonta. Old copper mining town. This is the Bible Christian Methodist Church built in 1873 in the romanesque style with rounded windows. In 1913 sold to the Churches of Christ. Now a private residence.
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Kapunda. South Australian copper mining town from 1842 to 1878. One of many stone villa houses from the 1880s with wonderful cast iron lace work on the veranda cast in the Hawke Foundry of Kapunda.
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Alcan smelter/power plant
by johndal

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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Kapunda. The sculpture of a horse which would have worked the whim on the copper mine site. The whim hauled the buckets of water or copper ore to the ground level.
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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.
by denisbin