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  2. Wenlock Goldfield - Wikipedia

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    The Huntington mill is rare and the most intact of the two recorded in North Queensland. [1] The place has potential to yield information that will contribute to an understanding of Queensland's history. Wenlock Goldfield has the potential to provide valuable information contributing to an understanding of Queensland's history.

  3. Ravenswood Mining Landscape and Chinese Settlement Area

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    According to a table on Ravenswood's gold production, [68] total production to 1917 inclusive was 865,054oz of gold (154,094oz to the end of 1877 and 254,213oz from 1878 to 1899 and 456,747oz from 1900 to 1917, making it the fifth largest gold producer in Queensland, after Charters Towers, Mount Morgan, Gympie and the Palmer goldfield ...

  4. West Indies - Wikipedia

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    "West Indies" or "West India" was a part of the names of several companies of the 17th and 18th centuries, including the Danish West India Company, the Dutch West India Company, the French West India Company, and the Swedish West India Company. [13] West Indian is the official term used by the U.S. government to refer to people of the West ...

  5. Lasseter's Reef - Wikipedia

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    In this claim Lasseter details that as a young man of the age of 17, he rode on horse from Queensland to the West Australian gold fields, during which he stumbled across a huge gold reef somewhere near the border between the Northern Territory and Western Australia. [1] [2] However Lasseter had been sentenced to reform school at that time. [2]

  6. Fossicking - Wikipedia

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    In Queensland, fossickers must obtain a licence, but no licence is required in New South Wales. In South Australia, fossicking is defined as "the gathering of minerals as (a) a recreation; and (b) without any intention to sell the minerals or to utilise them for a commercial purpose", and these activities are considered as not being affected by ...

  7. Golden Gate Mining and Town Complex - Wikipedia

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    The Golden Gate Mining and Town Complex, which contains remnants of mine workings, battery, cyanide plant, township and cemetery, has the potential to provide information on important aspects of Queensland's history, especially early gold mining practices and treatment processes, and patterns of settlement in North Queensland.

  8. List of caves in Jamaica - Wikipedia

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    Coffee River Cave – a large river cave in Manchester Parish in west-central Jamaica, it is 2,800 metres (9,200 ft) in length and at an elevation of 250 metres (820 ft). Dunn's Hole – a large chamber cave in Trelawny Parish, it consists of a very large chamber approximately 200 metres long, 100 metres wide and 80 metres high, located at the ...

  9. Tomahawk Creek Huts - Wikipedia

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    Tomahawk Creek Fossicking Area, about 25 kilometres (16 mi) west of Rubyvale, north-west of Emerald, is the most remote part of the Central Queensland Gemfields.It is about 2,340 hectares (5,800 acres) in area, excised from a Grazing Homestead Perpetual Lease.