Category: mining
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In Lithgow
On my day off from walking in the Blue Mountains National Park in NSW I spent a day wandering around, and photographing in, the town of Lithgow. It was a walking back into history: the long road to an industrial past of the early twentieth century. Lithgow is an old coal mining town . Coal,…
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Iron Knob + history
When I made a quick visit to the Eyre Peninsula in late 2023 with Maleko, our standard poodle, we camped overnight at Iron Knob in South Australia’s Middleback Range. I wanted to spend some time walking around this old mining town to see what was left. I had briefly visited it in passing through the…
