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The Gulf District

Gilliat
Hulbert
Iffley
Maxwelton

Ifley Waterhole

Iffley
Gulf District

Iffley is a town that never was. It was surveyed as a town on one of the proposed Normanton to Cloncurry railway routes; the 1889 survey. Although the railway never proceeded, it was ….

Read about Daniel Wilson’s most remarkable 160 klm ride to Croydon hospital with injuries sustained in a dynamite blast.

The Gulf Railway

East Haydon
Glenore
Goothinga

Croydon District

Gorge Creek
Guilded Rose
Homeward Bound
Golden Valley
Goldstone
Gorge Creek
Guilded Rose
Homeward Bound

Golden Gate Mines and township

Golden Gate
Croydon District

The town of Golden Gate was the most important on the field outside Croydon.

By 1900 the population was about 600. There were 11 hotels. Substantial remains, mainly mining, still exist. In 1988, the Golden Gate heap leach plant reopened but by 1992, the plant closed.

Read the reminiscences of Jack Jones about the Ladies of Golden Gate

Cloncurry District

Hares Camp
Hightville
Hogans Well
Kalkadoon
Koolmarra
Kuridala
Lady Fanny Camp
Longamundi
Marrabah
Mary Kathleen
May Downs
McGregor Junction
Mount Cobalt
Mount Cuthbert

Mount Oxide
Murphys Camp
Pride Camp
Selwyn
Soldiers Gap
Spring Camp
The Gorge
Tick Hill
Top Camp
Trekelano
Turners Camp
Von Bremens Camp
Waggabundi

Selwyn - Cloncurry District

Selwyn actually lies outside the scope of this book. It is included however, because it is the terminus for the railway line from Cloncurry through Malbon and Kuridala which reached Selwyn on 15th December 1910.

The town takes its name from the Selwyn Ranges which were named after the Victorian Government Geologist A.R.C.Selwyn. The mine plant cost £10,000 and the smelter £80,000. By 1915 £2 million worth of copper was produced.

By November 1918 there were 4,000 tons of copper stacked ready for transport but the market collapsed and 650 men were laid off at Selwyn. In total, the smelters produced 27,000 tons of copper.

By 1913 there were 1,000 people growing to 1,500 by 1918 then rapidly declining. Two cabinet ministers came from Selwyn. Today, only the railway formation and foundations remain of the town site with the chimney on the smelter site. In 1993 the Arimco Mining Group reopened the mine which went under several names including Starra and Selwyn mines before closing in 2003.

Read the story of James Elliott, wrongly sentenced for a crime, found Copper and retired to Cloncurry and also the beer strike

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Bowen
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Torres Strait
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