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Some mines and towns have been revived with the fate of the nickel and gold mining operations in the region. Other minerals have also seen mines and towns develop. A number of the towns' names are also names of Goldfields and Goldfield districts in the mineral fields of Western Australia .
Gwalia is a former gold-mining town located 233 kilometres (145 mi) north of Kalgoorlie and 828 kilometres (514 mi) east of Perth in Western Australia's Great Victoria Desert. Today, Gwalia is essentially a ghost town, having been largely deserted since the main source of employment, the Sons of Gwalia gold mine, closed in 1963.
Peak Hill is the name of a goldfield, [2] locality and the site of a gold mining [3] ghost town in the Murchison Region of Western Australia.The gold mine covers 2,162 hectares and consists of four open-cut mines, titled: Main, Jubilee, Fiveways and Harmony.
Betoota, in Queensland, is the smallest designated town in Australia; its last permanent resident died in 2004. Big Bell is a former mining town in Western Australia. Boydtown, in New South Wales, was originally settled and then abandoned in the 1840s. It remained abandoned until the 1930s.
Yerranderie was formerly a silver mining town of 2000 people, but the mining industry collapsed in 1927, and the town was cut off from direct access from Sydney by the establishment of the Warragamba Dam and Lake Burragorang in 1959. Country singer Frank Ifield immortalised the event with his song “Yerranderie”. The Yerranderie Post Office ...
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Big Bell is a ghost town in Western Australia located approximately 30 km (19 mi) south west of the town of Cue. [1] The town was established in 1936, and was home to the Big Bell Gold Mine . [ 2 ]
The town was abandoned in 1992. Upon closure, all buildings were removed, all vegetation not indigenous to the local area was burnt, and the roads torn up. This was done in accordance with the government's policy of regrowth to avoid the occurrence of ghost towns. [8] [9] Today, very little remains on the site to indicate that the town ever ...