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Heritage protection for smelter and township remains
The remains of a copper smelter and the abandoned township that supported it, both located 45km southwest of Rockhampton, have been entered in the Queensland Heritage Register as an archaeological place.
Queensland Heritage Council (QHC) Chair, Professor Peter Coaldrake, said the Adolphus William Copper Smelter and Dee Township, outside Mount Morgan, had the potential to reveal important information about Queensland’s history.
“This is a rare, surviving example of a smelter and township complex from the early phase of copper mining in central Queensland,” Professor Coaldrake said.
“It is one of the most intact examples of its type and could give us a better understanding of early copper smelting practices.
“The smelter is actually the only known place to have an associated township that survives with reasonable potential to provide an insight into the people who lived and worked around the smelter.
Copper mining was first established as a commercial extractive industry in South Australia in 1844 and began in Queensland in 1862.
“Mining and associated industries such as smelting played a major role in stimulating the development of local, regional and state economies and underpinning the growth of central Queensland,” he said.
“The Adolphus William Smelter was established in the early boom-bust period in international copper prices of the 1870s. It operated on and off between about 1872 and 1879 and was worked again in the early and mid 20th century.
“Little is known about the associated Dee township which is believed to have been occupied during the 1870s boom period and was quickly abandoned when the mine and smelter closed for the first time.
“The visible remains of the township include three or four buildings and it is probable that the remains of other structures could be identified through archaeological investigations.
“The smelter remnants include a reverberatory furnace which is the most intact of only three that survive with any degree of intactness in the region, despite this being the predominant technology of early copper smelting.”
Other smelter remains visible over the site include a brick chimney stack, slag piles, dry stone walling and a small cottage.
The Queensland Heritage Council is the State’s independent peak body and advisor on heritage matters and determines what places are entered in the Queensland Heritage Register.
Places that are entered in the Heritage Register are considered of importance to Queensland’s history and are protected under heritage legislation.