Talk:Mount Carbine, Queensland

Initial compilation of links & refs for expansion
population and other details:

(unreferenced history is from []


 * A BFIEF HISTORY OF THE WOLFBAMITE I\,IINE AT MT. CARBINE FROM 1895 TO 1988
 * 19 miles (approx 30.5 kms) west of Port Douglas, 84 miles (approx 132.5kms) north west of Cairns;
 * dry, grassland, savanna country, seperated from the coast by ruggesd chain of mountains (being] the Great Dividing range


 * Mount Carbine Caravan Park's history page


 * Queensland State library .. Aboriginal reserve history

Initial Chronology for proposed expansion

 * 1890's: [wolframite]] was first discovered on the slopes of Carbine Hill


 * 1890's: miner Carroll Walsh names the mining town after the 1890 winner of the Melbourne cup, Carbine.


 * 1890's = 1919: Mt. Carbine developed into a town and had a population of over 400. Shops and other buildings included :- the School of Arts, Church, Court House, Post Office, Hospital, School, Police Station, bakery, butchery, general store, drapery, cordials manufactory, barber,ore buyers, billiard saloon, 3 hotels, freight and transport carriers and a blacksmith.


 * 1968: R.B. Mining purchased the leases


 * 1971: R.B. Mining commenced stage one of the treatment plant. In late 1971 an initial settlement of 60 men was built.


 * 1976: Queensland Wolfram Pty Ltd was formed to buy the mining leases and existing facilities at Mt. Carbine from R.B. Mining.


 * 1976 - 1980: A large increase in housing, a caravan park, messing facilities, a shop and many and varied recreational facilities were provided for the miners and their families by the Mining Co. The population of Mt. Carbine and district grew to about 400.


 * 1986: By November 1986, there were few options left and the mine was placed on "care and maintenance" until February 1993,


 * 1993: Poseidon Ltd sold all the mining plant and equipment, and the Mining Village at Public Auction.


 * 2002: Western Yalanji obtain a Australia's third native title consent determination, the first involving a pastoral lease, and the title to land was handed to western Yalanji at a moving ceremony on 24 January 2002  ref

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