Cangai Copper Mine

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Construction of the tramway at the Cangai Copper Mine, 1910/11
Construction of the tramway at the Cangai Copper Mine, 1910/11
Tramway at the Cangai Copper Mine and O&K steam locomotive, 1910–17

The Cangai Copper Mine was operated by Grafton Copper Mining Company Ltd in Cangai in northern New South Wales from 1904 to 1917 .

history

The copper mine was located approximately 3.2 km (2 miles) east of the village of Cangai. The facilities also included several smelting furnaces and a narrow-gauge railway pulled by a steam locomotive for the transport of firewood, as well as a cable winch-operated funicular for transporting ore. The mine paid lucrative dividends due to the high quality of the ore and other location advantages. The ore could easily be brought downhill via the funicular for further processing in the smelting furnaces.

The company was founded by a group of business people from Grafton , about 100 km away , who also kept an eye on production, unlike many other Australian mining companies. The refined Garkupfer was mehrspännigen horse cart to the pier of Copmanhurst on Clarence River brought.

When the forests near the smelting furnaces were cleared, a 6.4 km (4 mile) narrow-gauge railway with a gauge of 762 mm (2  feet 6  inches ) was built in 1910-11 to carry enough firewood for the kilns. The Australian Metal Company supplied the rails, but the lorries and wagons were imported from Germany, including a steam locomotive from Orenstein & Koppel in Berlin. During the First World War economic difficulties arose, so that the operation of the kilns was stopped shortly before the end of 1916, and the ore deposits were exhausted at the end of 1917. In 1920 the locomotive and truck were sold as a forest railroad to the Tasmanian Timber and Tramway Company in Bridport .

The last chimney was demolished in 2009 on behalf of the North Coast Copper Mines . Since then, little has been preserved of the mine, the smelting furnaces and the narrow-gauge railway.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b "Assessment of Mineral Resources in the Upper North East CRA Study Area: A project undertaken as part of the NSW Comprehensive Regional Assessments November 1999" . November 1999, New South Wales Government & Commonwealth Government. Retrieved May 6, 2017.
  2. ^ "Cangai Copper Mine, Cangai, Gresham Co., New South Wales, Australia" . mindat.org. Retrieved May 6, 2017.
  3. ↑ Shoebridge, JW, The Cangai Railway: Grafton Copper Company Firewood Tramway, in Light Railways 134, October 1996. Light Railway Research Society of Australia, Surrey Hills, Victoria.
  4. ^ "Trade via Bridport" (alternative online version ), North-Eastern Advertiser , Scottsdale, December 14, 1920. Retrieved May 7, 2017.
  5. ↑ Chris Nield: "Old Chimney stack at Cangai Goes as Copper Mining Plans Proceed" , The Daily Examiner , Grafton, May 18, 2009. Accessed May 6, 2017th

Coordinates: 29 ° 30 ′ 0 ″  S , 152 ° 29 ′ 24 ″  E