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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 ...
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.
With permission granted from the Indonesian Department of Tourism and the local village chiefs, fossicking for gold can be carried out in several regions that are accessible to international tourists. However, fossicking equipment is restricted to gold pans, shovels, and metal detectors. The use of sluices, dredges, or other machinery is forbidden.
The place demonstrates rare, uncommon or endangered aspects of Queensland's cultural heritage. The Pyrites Chlorination Works is a rare, if not unique, survivor of its kind, exhibiting in its layout and foundation the latest chlorination process technology before the introduction of the cyanide process; then its takeover and adaptation to the ...
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.
The site became well known for fossicking and gem-stone collecting, and numerous relics are held in the Cloncurry/Mary Kathleen Memorial Park and Museum in Cloncurry. [2] The site, now only roads and concrete pads, can be accessed, as an overnight camp, from the Barkly Highway at -20.780837,139.9734. [8]
The place has potential to yield information that will contribute to an understanding of Queensland's history. The extensive mining landscape - its surface ruins, artefact scatters, and potential alluvial and sub-surface workings - has the potential to reveal information about late 19th and early 20th century mining practices and treatment ...
As of 2022 there were 86 coal mines in Queensland. [1] Mine Name Company Mine Type ... Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License