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    The Chillagoe Railway and Mining Company was an Australian business established in 1897 initially under the name Chillagoe Proprietary. Its initial purpose...
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    The Chillagoe smelters is a heritage-listed refinery at Chillagoe-Mungana Caves National Park, Mareeba Mining District, Chillagoe, Shire of Mareeba, Queensland...
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    the mine to the QR line, to be the same gauge and standard as the QR line. The Chillagoe Railway & Mining Co. was created for the project, but the public...
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    The school closed 1902. The Chillagoe branch railway line was a private railway built for the Chillagoe Railway and Mining Company. Starting at Mareeba...
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    Australian Railways Y class and Tasmanian Government Railways C class, and also on the Chillagoe Railway & Mining Co in Queensland, the Emu Bay Railway in Tasmania...
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    the Chillagoe Railway and Mining Co. Once the unloading was complete, the acting Mayor of Cairns gave a dinner at Hides Hotel for Captain Cuthbert and his...
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    Mungana Archaeological Area (category Mining towns in Queensland)
    Mungana Archaeological Area is a heritage-listed former mining town at Mungana, Chillagoe, Shire of Mareeba, Queensland, Australia.It is also known as...
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    Quartz Hill Coach Change Station (category Buildings and structures in Far North Queensland)
    the Change Station at Quartz Hill. In 1900 John Moffat of the Chillagoe Railway and Mining Company acquired an interest in the Einasleigh Copper Mine, which...
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    Johnston's Sawmill Steam Plant (category Buildings and structures in Far North Queensland)
    Moffat's enterprises, and his Chillagoe Company built private railways between Mareeba and Chillagoe during 1898-1901, and from Almaden to Forsayth during...
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    Hertzberg & Co., stored at the government magazine at a cost, and then sold to the mining companies and merchants on the Atherton tinfields and Chillagoe copperfields...
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    1894), men's and women's toilets and a goods shed. Construction of the Chillagoe Company's private railway lines from Mareeba to Chillagoe and Forsayth,...
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    Queensland Railways Department for many years. The railway station was on the Chillagoe Railway & Mining Co. line from Mareeba to Mount Garnet which opened...
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  • Thumbnail for Ravenswood Mining Landscape and Chinese Settlement Area
    Ravenswood Mining Landscape and Chinese Settlement Area is a heritage-listed former mining town and archaeological site on the reserve bounded by School...
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    Queensland B15 class locomotive (category Railway locomotives introduced in 1889)
    engines were acquired In 1919 when the Queensland Railways took over the Chillagoe Railway & Mining Co. Problems with broken rails saw three sets of 45-inch...
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    private mining railway, as had been done elsewhere in Queensland, e.g. the Chillagoe railway (built 1898–1901), the Mount Garnet railway (1901–02), and the...
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  • The Queensland Pioneer Steam Railway is located near Ipswich, Queensland, Australia and runs through the former West Moreton pioneering coal fields. It...
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  • J. S. Reid (category Australian mining businesspeople)
    Chapman and William Knox, the Chillagoe Railway & Mining Co. that in 1897 built the railway from Chillagoe (site of a great copper deposit) to Mareeba and thence...
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    Common, adjacent to Ingham Road and the North Coast Railway line. Two 800 yd (730 m) gravel runways were constructed, and the new Townsville Airport officially...
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    Queensland B11 Baldwin class locomotive (category Railway locomotives introduced in 1880)
    Queensland Railways B11 class locomotive was a class of 2-6-0 steam locomotives operated by the Queensland Railways. In 1880, the Queensland Railways took delivery...
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    Stannary Hills Tramways (category Mining in Queensland)
    was eventually incorporated into, and is still used by, the Mossman Mill. See map in Chillagoe Railway & Mining Co. Main line Boonmoo Stannary Hills Irvinebank...
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    £2 million loss sustained by the State stations and the State-acquired Chillagoe railway, mines and smelter. The State butchery in Arthur Street, Roma...
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    Ted Theodore (category Australian mining businesspeople)
    for tin in the Chillagoe area and worked in the Vulcan Mine in Irvinebank. It was among the unorganised workers of Stannary Hills and Irvinebank that...
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  • T. J. Greenway (category Australian mining engineers)
    appointed general manager of the Chillagoe Railway & Mining Co. in June 1902 and resigned in 1906. Greenway settled in Melbourne, and became manager of the Potter...
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    stations and the State-acquired Chillagoe railway, mines and smelter. The Walkerston State Butcher shop was built on land previously owned by Annie and William...
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  • Thumbnail for Laheys Tramway
    Laheys Tramway (category Railway lines opened in 1900)
    arrived in 1903, and lowered the cost of haulage by 85%. Another locomotive, a Shay locomotive was purchased from the North Mt Lyell Mining Co. in Tasmania...
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  • schools, which accommodated students from Kindergarten to Year 7 (ages 5–13), and high schools, which accommodate students from Years 8 to 12 (ages 12–18)...
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    administration and accordingly, in 1909 it was incorporated into the Chillagoe Gold and Mineral field. There was an initial rush of over 2,000 men and up to 1877...
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  • List of tramways in Queensland (category 2 ft gauge railways in Australia)
    because it has its own article, and is heritage listed. Tramway lengths are shown in miles to conform to other Australian railway articles. Where the source...
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    Kingsborough Battery (category Mining in Queensland)
    justified separate goldfield administration and accordingly, in 1909 it was incorporated into the Chillagoe Gold and Mineral field. When Queensland Government...
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    Kuridala Township site (category Copper mining companies of Australia)
    in Queensland. A large, intact and well-formed slag dump at the site is second only in size to the dump at Chillagoe smelters. Archaeological examination...
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