Ravenswood – the old and the new gold mining

This afternoon we drove out to the little gold mining town of Ravenswood, near Charters Towers, Queensland, Australia.

Gold was discovered there in 1867 and the remains of the disused railway line, mine shafts, stampers and chimneys for smelting abound. By contrast, there is also a huge modern, open cut mine and we watched road trains of ore trucking out of it.

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