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Charters Towers

Boom town, Australia.

About Charters Towers

Town in Queensland, Australia.1

Sources

  1. Wikidata item Q1020266 (Charters Towers)

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: Super Pit, Kalgoorlie by Kgbo, CC BY-SA 4.0.