Moonta Mines is a locality at the northern end of the Yorke Peninsula, adjoining the town of Moonta. It is located in the Copper Coast Council. From 1861...
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Moonta is a town on the Yorke Peninsula of South Australia, 165 km (103 mi) north-northwest of the state capital of Adelaide. It is one of three towns...
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production of the Wallaroo Mine outpaced that of the Moonta Mines in 1899. 1n 1900, there was an outbreak of typhoid at Wallaroo Mines, and after a new doctor...
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Moonta Bay is located in the Copper Coast region of Northern Yorke Peninsula South Australia, adjacent to the historic town of Moonta and Port Hughes...
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1859, and in Moonta (in a wombat hole) in 1861. Confusingly, the famous Wallaroo Mines were at Kadina, not Wallaroo. There were no copper mines at Wallaroo...
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remnants of the Wallaroo Mines. Kernewek Lowender, a Cornish festival, is held every odd year in May in Kadina (as well as Moonta and Wallaroo, with each...
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Minlaton Miners Cottage and Heritage Garden, Moonta Moonta Mines Public School, Moonta Moonta Mines Sweets Shop, Moonta Mount Laura Station, Whyalla Napper's...
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187, 214 and 394–398. Retrieved 6 April 2016. "Moonta Mines State Heritage Area". South Australian Heritage Register. Department of Environment, Water...
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South Australian Branch of the Australian Labor Party. Born in Moonta Mines, South Australia, the youngest of twelve children to Cornish miner Richard Richards...
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value of these mines was soon overshadowed by the discovery of copper at Kapunda (1842), Burra (1845) and in the Copper Triangle (Moonta, Kadina and Wallaroo)...
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