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LOCATION
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Address MOONTA MINES
Locality
Accuracy H - high level confidence
Council Area Copper Coast Council
Polygon Type D - item has been digitised (generally because it doesn't exist in a DCDB parcel, eg. bridge
DESCRIPTION
Details (Known As) Moonta Mines State Heritage Area [National Heritage Place ID: 106096]
Registered Name
Significance The Moonta Mines State Heritage Area encompasses the site of one of the largest commercial mining enterprises in colonial South Australia which generated vast wealth and wages from the sale of copper ore. The opening of the copper mines at Moonta led to a rapid influx of skilled miners and other artisans from Cornwall and the area became known as 'Australia's Little Cornwall'. For a time exports of copper surpassed those of wheat, and the town of Moonta and the mines area contained the largest urban population outside Adelaide. Considerable remnants of the mining venture remain, illustrating many aspects of copper mining and processing.
Subject Index Urban area - State Heritage Area [Urban]; Mining and mineral processing - Mine
Class State Her Area
STATUS
Status Code SHA - State Heritage Area (SA Heritage Act 1978)
Status Date 10-MAY-1984
REFERENCE
LGA
State Heritage ID 13975
Heritage Number 27551
SECTION 16 INFORMATION
Section 16
PLAN PARCEL & TITLE
As listed in the SA Heritage Register
Plan Parcel & Title Information

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