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Ollera - Townsville District
Surveyed in 1915 to serve the wolfram and bismuth mines on Ollera Creek …… There were more than 20 mines …… In 1905 a 10-head battery brought from Ravenswood was erected while there were 100 men working wolfram ……
Further down the Ollera Creek there was a store, from where ore was taken to Townsville by cutter…. One such lighter, the Calliope, stranded in the creek at this time …… 1927 a mill driven by a water wheel which was operating on the now Crystal Creek …… Tin mining progressed in the area and was done by miners from Townsville extensively form the 1960’s until the tin collapse in 1983. ……
There is one marked grave here, to Edith aged 19 in 1883.“They blazed the tracks” is Colin’s feature story which links the names of Mt Spec and Paluma landmarks to those who traversed the mountain spurs and rainforest- Arthur Benham, Phil Foxlee, Gard brothers