Black Jack Mine Charters Towers
Wikipediaopen wikipedia design.Charters Towers mine shafts. Media in category 'Mines in Charters Towers' The following 47 files are in this category, out of 47 total. Charters Towers Gold Mine Shafts and Remains. StateLibQld 1 257815 Black Jack Mine near Charters Towers, ca. 1888.jpg 1,000 × 747; 124 KB. News of the finding of gold on Charters Towers saw John Deane peg out the site of the Defiance Mill in Church Street, and the Black Dog was removed there. Agua caliente casino promotional code. The mill was run by the partners from 1872 to 1875, when Frank Stubley, who had large mining Interests in the St Patrick P.C bought them out for £1200. Tailings heap included.
Blackjack Mine Charters Towers
| Black Jack Queensland | |||||||||||||
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| Coordinates | 20°10′08″S146°09′08″E / 20.1688°S 146.1522°ECoordinates: 20°10′08″S146°09′08″E / 20.1688°S 146.1522°E | ||||||||||||
| LGA(s) | Charters Towers Region | ||||||||||||
| State electorate(s) | Traeger | ||||||||||||
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Black Jack is a locality in the Charters Towers Region, Queensland, Australia.[1] It was formerly a mining town which is now abandoned.
Geography[edit]
Black Jack is a triangular-shaped locality. The Great Northern railway line forms the northern boundary of Black Jack. There are two railway stations within the locality, Wellington Yards railway station in the far north-east corner (on the outskirts of the suburban area of Charters Towers) and Southern Cross railway station on its north-west border.[2]
The Flinders Highway passes through the northern part of the locality, while the Diamantina Road forms its eastern boundary.[2]
Black Jack is approximately 350 metres above sea level rising to peaks in its south-west of 450 metres.[2]
History[edit]
The Black Jack P. C. mine produced large quantities of gold in 1886 and 1887 (known as the Black Jack Boom) but then produced very little in subsequent years.[3]
Black Jack Provisional School opened on 21 March 1887. It became Black Jack State School on 6 July 1891. It closed in 1949.[4]
References[edit]
- ^'Black Jack - locality in Charters Towers Region (entry 44535)'. Queensland Place Names. Queensland Government. Retrieved 24 July 2017.
- ^ abc'Queensland Globe'. State of Queensland. Retrieved 24 July 2017.
- ^Marsland, L. W (1892), The Charters Towers gold mines : a descriptive and historical account of the town and gold field of Charters Towers, Queensland : with full and detailed particulars of the more important mines, and of all mining companies carrying on operations on the field : being a handbook of Charters Towers and a guide to mining investors, Waterlow Bros. & Layton, retrieved 24 July 2017
- ^Queensland Family History Society (2010), Queensland schools past and present (Version 1.01 ed.), Queensland Family History Society, ISBN978-1-921171-26-0
Further reading[edit]
- Morton, C. C; Queensland. Dept. of Mines (1936), The Black Jack Gold Mine, Charters Towers, Dept. of Mines, retrieved 24 July 2017
External links[edit]
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