Old Mine Site

Point of Interest

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North West Coastal Highway, Western Australia.

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Description

It contains evidence of mining, mineral processing and habitation that encompass the greater part of the Northampton Mineral Field's mining history. The Galena Mine Precinct also has significance as an essential component of the group of sites that constitute the Galena Heritage Area. The site contains ruins of old poppet heads, mine buildings, excavations, old shafts, flooded open cut mine site and tailing dumps. The ruins cover an extensive area together with remnants of old equipment. Sites that originally were separate mines are now overgrown and appear to merge together requiring some archaeological investigation to define them. Remnants comprise extensive footings of treatment plant, a bucket elevator and drying floors; shafts and open pits.

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Location

Lat: -27.834423 Lng: 114.685509