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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 ...
[5] [6] Mining employed 19.8% of the north Queensland population in 1868, and 50% by 1876, before dropping to 15% in 1911. [7] Although gold mining attracted people to north Queensland, alluvial finds of gold usually led to temporary townships, whereas underground reef mining held the promise of more stable and permanent settlements. [1]
The Carmichael coal mine is a coal mine in Queensland, Australia, owned by the Adani Group's Australian subsidiary Bravus Mining & Resources.It was approved by the government in 2014 and has been operational since December 2021.
Mine Name Company Mine Type Basin Operations began Production (Mt/a) Use Coal type Jeebropilly Mine: New Hope Group [2]: Open-cut: Clarence-Moreton: 1982
The water race is a rare and uncommon example of its type and is the longest stone pitched water race recorded in North Queensland. It is unusual in its size, ranging to over 2 metres (6 ft 7 in) in height in places and with a total extent of up to 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) in length. [1]
The Miner's Right was introduced in 1855 in the colony of Victoria, replacing the Miner's Licence.Protests in 1853 at Bendigo with the formation of the Anti-Gold Licence Association and the rebellion of Eureka Stockade in December 1854 at Ballarat led to reform of the system with a lower annual fee of five shillings for the right to mine gold, the right to vote, and the right to own land.
Cubbie Station, the largest irrigation property in the southern hemisphere [citation needed], is located near Dirranbandi, in south west Queensland, Australia.The station comprises 93,000 hectares (230,000 acres) and is operated by CS Agriculture, a joint venture between Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets (MIRA) (49%) and Shandong Ruyi (51%), a textile manufacturer owned by investors ...
These are places in the Australian state of Queensland that are either currently or historically built on mining industries of various sorts. Queensland portal Subcategories