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Mount Morgan Mine

Mount Morgan Mine, Australia. Closed, open pit, mining gold, copper.

Why Mount Morgan Mine is famous

Worked from 1882 to November 1990. Other sources suggest a 1981 end for mining proper, which I could not confirm.1,2

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Timeline

  1. 1882Mount Morgan gold mining begins3

Mount Morgan Mine today

Where gold is mined todayWhere copper is mined todayMining in Australia

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Events

Led toMount Morgan gold mining beginsRead what happened near Mount Morgan Mine: Mount Morgan gold mining begins.1

Sources

  1. Mount Morgan mine Queensland Government
  2. Wikidata entity Q6922260
  3. Mount Morgan remediation project Queensland Government

From the Prospector Trails mining history dataset: each fact links to the source it was checked against. Figures are as the source gives them, in the money of their day. Not investment advice.

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Cover photos from Wikimedia Commons: Haul trucks by Lechhabmed, CC BY-SA 4.0. Pictures: Kimberley, South Africa: miners and washing gear at the Bultfontein diamond mine. Woodburytype, 1888, after a photograph by Robert Harris., Harris, Robert, active 1881-1888. (Public Domain Mark 1.0).